Who Will Harvest Potatoes?

While Washington politicians spar over who has the best election-year border control and immigration plan, Jack Hoopes wonders who will harvest his seed potatoes.

He needs 50 workers for the three-week harvest starting next week. He has just 35, including students who get a week off from school in the Teton Valley, a farming region northeast of Idaho Falls. Hoopes said his Hispanic workers tell him President Bush’s plan for 6,000 National Guard troops on America’s 1,951-mile southern border and the intensifying spotlight on undocumented immigration have had a chilling effect on Mexicans willing to come north. Click here.

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