Oct 3, 2011Foreigners filling temporary jobs at North Carolina farms
While more than one in 10 North Carolinians are without work, thousands of farm jobs that pay more than the minimum wage are being filled by immigrants, most of them from Mexico, through a legal, temporary work program.
This year alone, North Carolina farmers were granted permission to hire 8,547 temporary foreign agricultural workers, by far the most of any state. This represents more than 10 percent of the state’s agricultural workforce, according to the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina. The Sacramento Bee
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