| Arizona's agriculture production is moving across the border to Mexico as the debate over illegal immigration continues, a Valley research economist says. "Basically, the idea is if you can't bring the workers from Mexico to pick your crops here in the U.S., you take your crop to Mexico where the workers are," said Dawn McLaren with Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business. "The land is there, too. It's not as though the land is that different on one side of the border as it is on the other." As just one example, McLaren said the United States imported about 35 percent of its limes from Mexico 20 years ago. Today, it's 100 percent. And the U.S. imports 50 percent of its avocadoes from Mexico. The shift to growing in Mexico could be an unintended consequence of Arizona's tough new employer sanctions law, which takes effect in January, McLaren said. |
From Ms.FedupAmerican - 11 Oct 2007 @ 05:21 am
First time I laughed all day long with all this shit about our Texas soverignity being questioned by the International Court and Bush who opposess the execution of that piece of shit that raped those two Texas girls.
