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Georgia's tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, "millions of dollars' worth of
by Maxious 15y ago
Georgia's tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, "millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops [are] unharvested and rotting in the fields."
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/georgias-harsh-immigration-law-costs-millions-in-unharvested-crops/240774/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/georgias...
Surely there would be some way to legalize low cost unskilled workers at the expense of giving them some basic rights.
- ebiester 15y agoBus them in from Atlanta and pay them legal wages and working conditions. Amazingly though, the price of food will go up. It's a labor supply shock, not a shortage however. The people who would be hired would be inexperienced and more expensive.