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Short on Labor, Farmers in U.S. Shift to Mexico
Short on Labor, Farmers in U.S. Shift to Mexico
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: September 5, 2007
CELAYA, Mexico ā Steve Scaroni, a farmer from California, looked across a luxuriant field of lettuce here in central Mexico and liked what he saw: full-strength crews of Mexican farm workers with no immigration problems.
Farming since he was a teenager, Mr. Scaroni, 50, built a $50 million business growing lettuce and broccoli in the fields of California, relying on the hands of immigrant workers, most of them Mexican and many probably in the United States illegally.
But early last year he began shifting part of his operation to rented fields here. Now some 500 Mexicans tend his crops in Mexico, where they run no risk of deportation.
āIām as American red-blood as it gets,ā
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