Thread: MI: Immigration crackdowns scare growers

Immigration crackdowns scare growers

WEST MICHIGAN — In the wake of a 10-year sentence handed down Monday to an executive who harbored illegal aliens, the chief of U.S. immigration enforcement promises more of the same.

And as agents crack down on undocumented workers and companies that violate the law, Julie Myers predicts arrests and deportations will rise.

“We do expect the numbers to continue to grow,â€

Bakker and many growers continue to call for a guest-worker program that would furnish agriculture with an ample supply of legal temporary workers.

We already have one, it's called H-2A, I believe?

Make a deal and use convict labor, can't get any cheaper than that AND they don't bring their whole families or have anchor babies, which we are forced to support, because you don't pay them enough!

If companies leave there, they will leave a paper trail.

ICE, where are you?

Also, if a product is grown in one area (such as grapes) it's hard to transport soil and start all over again last I knew.

~Has there been a magic climate powder added to our weather that will instantaneously change the climate to be user friendly. If so send it to my area! I'm tired of this long, cold winter!!

"But as immigrant labor begins to dry up in certain sectors of the economy, some Michigan growers worry about the future of their crops. Oceana County farmer Ray Selig said he lost $15,000 last year when he had to mow down his asparagus field after he failed to find enough workers to pick the crop."

I did not know we were policing workers last year with the same level as we are this year. Sounds like a cock and bull story. Or perhaps Selig's wage level is an insult even to IAs!!!!