.... By the time the workers made it back across the
border and into the fields, a big chunk of this year's harvest
was lost.

NPR was interviewing a California peach grower ....
...he still had tons of fruit rot in the fields.

My heart bleeds....

Please, what's really going on here is that the employer (farmer, grower,
whatever) was too cheap to hire more labor to come in and finish the job. I
believe many employers do this intentionally to protest the cut-off of their
cheap labor supply.

The implication is that the American economy will somehow shut down if we
don't allow illegal immigration, when all that's really needed is for
employers to be more responsible.

Frankie