Georgia farmers worry that House Bill 87 will squeeze legal immigrant workers.
Georgia farmers hire more than 4,000 foreign workers each year to do work they say most American citizen’s won’t do.
These farmers say the federal guest worker program they use to legally bring these workers from Mexico and other countries to Georgia is costly and dysfunctional. And they worry it will come under more pressure if Gov. Nathan Deal signs Georgia’s tough new immigration enforcement bill this month as he has indicated he will.
In Friday's newspaper, the AJC takes a deep look at how Georgia farmers are using this temporary guest worker program. It's a story you'll get only by picking up a copy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution or logging on to the paper's iPad app . Subscribe today .
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Jeremy Redmon is an award-winning journalist, essayist and educator with more than three decades of experience reporting for newspapers.
