Agriculture Needs Immigration Reform

This writer tells how much the country would suffer without the immigrant work force on the farms and in the fields. We need immigration reform now. - - Donna Poisl

by Rick Jordahl, Pork Magazine

With an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, no one will disagree that immigration reform needs to be a priority.

For many reasons, most U.S. workers choose employment in other vocations leaving a labor vacuum on crop fields and livestock farms. The fact is, U.S. agriculture has a labor crisis.

“Most farmers and ranchers still struggle to find all the workers they need,” says Gene Hall, public relations director, Texas Farm Bureau. “The majority of the illegal aliens came here to work.”
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