Aug 1, 2011
Farmers fear illegal-labor crackdown

If you buy strawberry Häagen-Dazs ice cream, Steve Sakuma says, there’s an 80 percent chance that you’re going to get his berries, which are grown on some of the richest black soil in America, in northern Washington state, about 50 miles from Canada. The Columbian

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