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December 19, 2007
 
 

NY Farmers Want More Indentured Servants


"Congress' failure to ensure that there are enough migrant workers in the nation's labor force could eventually cost New York agriculture hundreds of millions of dollars in lost crops and hundreds of thousands of acres in lost farmland, analysts say. 'Our country is reaping what Congress has sown,' said Craig Regelbrugge, a vice president of the American Nursery and Landscape Association and co-chairman of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, a national coalition of more than 300 agricultural producer associations," the AP reports. "Despite repeated attempts, Congress and the Bush administration have been unable to come up with a long-term strategy on immigration reform and the current temporary worker program is 'hobbled by bureaucracy, excessive and burdensome paperwork and restrictive wages,' Regelbrugge said."

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