Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners
Marie Diamond, ThinkProgress: "Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama's agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created a labor shortage in the state.... GOP politicians have crowed that driving immigrants out of the state will reduce unemployment by letting native citizens fill those jobs. But ... Americans are simply unwilling to do the back-breaking labor of harvesting crops. To stave off the disastrous collapse of state agriculture, Alabama officials are seriously considering replacing immigrant workers with prison laborers who they could perhaps pay even less than immigrants."
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