AP / Yahoo News: Farmers brace for labor shortage under new policy [Translation: Corporate Ag depends upon not just cheap labor, but on endless supplies of illegal cheap labor, and is scared to death that Obama's illegal executive amnesty will prevent the hoped for and much campaign-contribution subsidized congressional 'comprehensive immigration reform' legislation that will mean an even more gigantic amnesty, boosting already massive legal immigration--not counting hundreds of thousands of 'refugees'--some special extra worker import provisions, as well as continued open borders. --tma]

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Farmers brace for labor shortage under new policy

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the nation's leading grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama's executive action to block some 5 million people from deportation.

Thousands of the state's farmworkers, who make up a significant portion of those who will benefit, may choose to leave the uncertainty of their seasonal jobs for steady, year-around work building homes, cooking in restaurants and cleaning hotel rooms.

"This action isn't going to bring new workers to agriculture," said Jason Resnick, vice president and general counsel of the powerful trade association Western Growers. "It's possible that because of this action, agriculture will lose workers without any mechanism to bring in new workers." ... 

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