Alabama Immigration Crackdown Prompts Farmers to Scale Back Production


This horrible law is hurting everyone, including the people who live there and won't be able to purchase fresh food at good prices from their local farmers.    - - Donna Poisl

from Fox News Latino

ONEONTA, Ala. –  Facing the possibility of labor shortages due to Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigration, some of the state's farmers are planting less.

Keith Dickie said he and other growers in the heart of Alabama's tomato country didn't have any choice but to reduce acreage amid fears there won't be enough workers to pick the delicate fruit.

Some farmers lacked enough hands to harvest crops because immigrants fled the state after Gov. Robert Bentley signed the immigration law last fall, and some told The Associated Press they fear the same thing could happen this year.

"There's too much uncertainty," said Dickie, who farms with his brother on a ridge called Straight Mountain, about 40 miles northeast of Birmingham.
Click on the HEADLINE above to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.