Border Security, Job Market Leave Farms Short of Workers
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CLOVIS, Calif. -- Bins of Granny Smith apples towered over two conveyor belts at P-R Farms' packing plant. But only one belt moved. P-R Farms, like farms up and down California and across the nation, does not have enough workers to process its fruit.
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Â· Farmers say soft fruit may be left unharvestedÂ· Fewer EU migrants seeking farm jobs
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The most dynamic, future-oriented industries are having trouble finding qualified employees.
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Along the expansive Canadian border, a lack of agents and antiquated motion sensors can make it difficult to distinguish between a would-be terrorist and a wayward moose, officials say.
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Border Patrol efforts to fight back against smugglers who pelt them with rocks and ball bearings over the border fence are reported to be taking a toll on innocent local residents, raising many a hackle.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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AT ISSUE: Critics accuse Border Patrol of underreporting number of illegal immigrants who die crossing border. Border Patrol says its vigilance has helped reduce deaths.
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Rural America is having a hard time finding doctors and since 9/11 it's been more difficult to import foreign physicians to fill the gap.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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As migrant farm laborers avoid Colorado because of tough new immigration laws, the state is offering prisoners to help in the harvest.
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A few Texas ranchers tired of costly repairs to cattle fences damaged by illegal immigrants have installed an easier route over the U.S.-Mexican border &amp;#151; ladders.
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The Texan economy would have been almost $18 billion poorer in the last fiscal year without illegal immigrants who added to state coffers but were a drain on local government, says a report by the state comptroller.
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CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.  - Farmer Kathleen Vinehout  knows why guns and abortion, favored Republican Party themes,  trump the economy or health care at election time in a swathe  of states stretching from Texas to the Canadian border.
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - Illegal immigrants from Latin America are heading deeper into the United States to find work and avoid deportation as crackdowns in border states like Texas and Arizona make life more difficult for them.
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Mexican border immigration is a mess. But we would be hypocrites to suddenly penalize 12 million here illegally for work, after winking at their crime for years to benefit our own economy. The borders must be secured and a worker pass system must be adopted.
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As an economic slowdown and the subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the United States, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes.
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The number of adult immigrants holding a job has grown by more than 2 million since 2000, while the number of employed native-born Americans fell by nearly a half-million, according to a study released Wednesday by a group that favors stricter immigration controls.