Source: AGWEEK, 2/21/19

 For decades, U.S. farmers, landscapers and builders tapped a seemingly endless supply of cheap labor: the waves of undocumented immigrants coming across the southern border. The workers arrived in time for harvests and construction booms. They did the low-wage manual labor that Americans were unwilling to do. By the 2000s, more than half of American farmworkers were undocumented, according to the Labor Department.

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