Alabama: Inmates Can Replace Hispanic Farmhands

December 7th, 2011

Via: Politico:

Alabama farmers frantically looking for workers to replace those that have fled the state in the wake of its tough new immigration law should just stop by their local prison, according to the head of Alabama’s agriculture department.

John McMillan, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, told the Montgomery Advertiser on Thursday that inmate labor through the state’s work-release program offers a short-term solution to the sudden labor shortage that has hit Alabama since enforcement of its illegal immigration law kicked in.

Some farmers have said the state’s new law has driven away Hispanic migrant farm workers — and without another potential labor source, they say produce may have to be left to rot in the fields.

“We are optimistic that by Monday, we will have some help for farmers,” McMillan said.

Under the law, employers must use the E-Verify system to check workers’ legality and police can ask for documentation of anyone they stop, detain or arrest.

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One Response to “Alabama: Inmates Can Replace Hispanic Farmhands”

  1. RBNZ says:
    December 7, 2011 at 8:48 am

    “without another potential labor source”WTF?

    I’m sure here they mean “without another source of DIRT CHEAP labour”.

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