Source: GREENHOUSE GROWER, 6/19/18


This country’s politics are out of control when it comes to agricultural guestworkers and immigration reform, and I’m afraid we’re not going to see a fair solution coming in the near future. It’s more than unfortunate — it just plain sucks, because there’s so much at stake here, for the workers and their families, for the companies who depend on them, for the horticulture and broader agriculture industries, and for the Americans who depend on us to sustain their way of living. How can we expect to feed and beautify our country without enough people to do the work? That’s the Catch-22. Like a bad employer, expecting the work to get done anyway without supplying the resources to do it, the U.S. government is pushing its people too far.

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