Farmers wait and worry about immigration laws
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:12:16 GMT
Fourth-generation vegetable farmer Will Rousseau keeps one eye on his crops and another on Capitol Hill, where Congress is debating immigration bills that could mean bounty or bust for farms dependent on migrant labor. Illegal immigrants make up about 53 percent of the nation's roughly 1.8 million farm workers, and cutting off the flow of willing workers -- legal or not -- to the fresh fruits and vegetables that need picking would spell the end for many farmers, Rousseau said.