Posted: Saturday, 28 March 2009 3:53PM

NY farmers: We'll Cut Crops If We Lose Immigrants


NEW YORK (AP) -- Long Island farmers say they'll have to cut back on crop production or go out of business if the government doesn't solve their workers' immigrant status.

Rep. Tim Bishop held a town hall meeting in Calverton Saturday to hear the farmers' concerns.

Dozens of them told the Democrat they depend on immigrant labor. They say they fear they'll lose too many workers, citing crackdowns on undocumented immigrants in recent years.

As national immigration bills stalled, state and local governments around the country tried to regulate immigration on their own, focusing enforcement efforts on workplaces.

Bishop says he's also working with the farmers on another issue: deferment of estate taxes on land used for agriculture or conservation.
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Its not immigrant labor , it is illegal immigrant labor .The obl would have a revolving door of illegals ,uneducated, and mostly mexicans that mexico wants to send to the U.S. so they do not have to take care of them and they are a source of income . After they are given scamnesty then we would get millions more losers and the revolving door would be turned again .

http://www.1010wins.com/NY-farmers--We- ... ts/4101345