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...rotting shame developing in the Pacific Northwest last week was only the first sign of a crisis that could spread through other agricultural regions of the U.S. this summer as an unintended consequence of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The problem: a dire shortage of migrant workers, many of them illegal aliens from Mexico who are staying home or sticking close to the border this summer because they are afraid of deportation under the new law. Last week more than one-third of Oregon's $30 million strawberry crop was rotting because only about half the state...
Even when more migrant workers get their permits, farm laborer shortages are unlikely to go away. Once aliens obtain legal status, they will no longer be quite so willing to do tedious, low-paying farm work, since they can then apply for any job they want. Thus growers are already beginning to boost wages for pickers of apricots and cherries by as much as 30%, to $6 an hour in some areas. As a result, some varieties of fruit may cost the consumer 4% to 6% more this summer than last...
Back to the future for United Airlines. -- Congress takes on corporate America. -- Crops rot as migrant workers...
...these fleeting weeks, birders head for one or more of the nation's famous migrant hot spots such as High Island, Texas, Big Morongo Wildlife Reserve in California, Point Pelee in Ontario and the Ramble in Manhattan's Central Park. Some will bird in a local park or simply settle into a backyard chair. Says Jerry Sullivan, a Chicago nature writer: "The nice thing is that you don't have to go some special place. You can do it just about anywhere...
Central to the illusion of apartheid, as decreed by the major segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white...