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According to the Center for Immigration Studies, there are now 11 million illegal immigrants in our country, an estimate many consider extremely low. It is somewhat ironic that corporate farmers in Southern California and Arizona are feeling the squeeze of a labor shortage in picking such crops as lettuce, strawberries, chiles and apples.The huge number of illegal immigrants residing in those two states (estimated at two and a half million) brings to light the falsehood that America needs more Hispanic immigrants to help pick the crops. According to government estimates, the total U.S. agricultural workforce is only 1.6 million.Larry Nelson, the mayor of Yuma, Ariz., an area especially hard-hit by the shortage of field hands, says that field work is hard and doesn’t pay well so illegal aliens are more inclined to work in construction and industry jobs where they displace American workers and cause wage stagnation or wage reduction.The Bush administration is supporting the Ag...
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