And there will be a ripple effect felt throughout the economy: in farm equipment. inputs. packaging. processing. transportation. marketing. lending and insurance. Jobs will be lost and our economy will suffer. The reality is that Americans have come to rely on undocumented workers to harvest their crops for them. In California alone. we rely on approximately one million undocumented workers to harvest the crops. The United Farm Workers estimate that undocumented workers make up as much as 90 percent of the farm labor payroll. Americans simply will not do the work. It is hard. stooped labor. requiring long and unpredictable hours. Farm workers must leave home and travel from farm to farm to plant. prune. and harvest crops according to the season. We must come to terms with the fact that we rely on an undocumented migrant work force. We must bring those workers out of the shadows and create a legal and enforceable means to provide labor for agriculture. That realization is what led to the long and careful negotiations creating AgJOBS.
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Americans simply will not do the work.