Monday, October 24, 2011

Test fails to replace immigrant laborers with U.S. citizens in Alabama

This proves what most people have been saying: citizen workers do not want and/or cannot do the hard work the immigrant workers have been doing. The farmers need the immigrant workers back. - - Donna Poisl

from Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Jerry Spencer had an idea after Alabama’s tough new law against illegal immigration scared Hispanic workers out of the tomato fields northeast of Birmingham: Recruit unemployed U.S. citizens to do the work, give them free transportation and pay them to pick the fruit and clean the fields.

After two weeks, Spencer said Monday, the experiment is a failure.
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