NOTE: OK ALIPAC'ers, as soon as the DREAM Act battle is over, we are going to have to move swiftly onto Ag Jobs. The propaganda is out there still and will only ratchet up in the near term. No rest for the weary. Eat well and take your vitamins!
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Threatened harvest in Upstate
From apples to grapes, foreign workers pick our food, but tougher immigration laws reduce labor supply Immigration reform failure will show up in your shopping cart

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Diana Louise Carter
Gannett News Service

If this year is like others, the sounds of droning cicadas and buzzing bees in local apple orchards will soon be supplanted by the cadence of Spanish speech and Jamaican accents as migrant workers arrive to pick the Upstate New York apple crop.

The harvest requires about 8,000 temporary workers each year, according to James Allen, president of the New York Apple Association. And those workers typically come from south of the U.S. border.

But apple farmers are worrying that the only sound they'll hear in their orchards this fall will be the “thunkâ€