Who’ll pick SC peaches? Immigration policy gridlock stymies farm labor
Story Date: 8/18/2014

 

Source: Ali Watkins, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 8/18/14


The heated tempers of the nation’s border states are driving the debate over immigration policy. States such as South Carolina, though, are reckoning with a different set of challenges: a skimpy agriculture labor market and cumbersome immigrant worker programs that go unfixed amid partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill.

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