Immigration crackdown hurting farmers
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- May
- 6
Crackdowns on immigration and bureaucratic red tape is threatening this year’s harvest of apples and other crops on New York farms, agricultural officials said today.
Failure of the federal Labor Department to grant permits for workers from Jamaica and Mexico to enter the state and stepped-up raids by Immigration and Naturalization agents “is having a devastating impact on our farmers,’’ said Julie Suarez of the state Farm Bureau.
The farmers will be about 2,000 workers short for the harvesting season (August through October) unless action is taken, she said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
