US farmers short on migrant workers move to Mexico - (Reuters)
February 13, 2008 – 7:16 pmMEXICALI, Mexico–Like other California vegetable growers, Larry Cox, according to this story, oversees hundreds of Mexican farm workers picking green onions, asparagus and cauliflower in the fertile Colorado River valley.
But this farm is not in California, where illegal immigration raids are causing labor shortages and strict environmental regulations are increasing costs.
Instead, Cox’s farm is just south of the border in Mexico where he can hire workers at a tenth of the cost.
The story says that Americans are farming some 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) of land in Mexico and employing 11,000 people, in spite of high crime, suspicion of outsiders and doubts back home about Mexican food safety standards.
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