[Cardhu]

Read it and weep - :)

[Iron Munro]

The government killed the Bracero program that provided a legal way for temporary foreign workers to take jobs like this, then go home when they are done.

I believe it was intentional as a way of creating support for their “comprehensive immigration reform” by making sure there is a shortage of pickers every year.

[WePledge]

I suggest we empty the govt. housing projects of lazy
20 something thugs and set them to picking blackberries
instead of texting on them. Maybe they'd at least partially
earn their keep.It's a pipe dream , I know.

[GizmosAndGadgets]

At least one major problem these farmers will have to wallow through is the fact that years of giving these jobs to migrant illegal workers means that Americans are not aware of the jobs or have any idea how to find them.

There is no obvious path to employment; I wasted an hour or so trying to search Google for seasonal or temporary farm jobs in Georgia with no luck. Even the website "TakeOurJobs.org" (supposedly setup last year in response to this same problem in Arizona) does not load, much less tell me how to find a peach of a job (Georgia humor ;-)

It will take time for legal citizens to discover that way of life; the illegal-alien aspect did not happen overnight and neither will the solution. The farmers may have to take their losses as part of the lesson they learn about the pitfalls of hiring illegal workers in the first place.

[gusopol3]

We’ve been posting and reading these stories for years.