Immigration Policies In America: Unfriendly and Destroying the Agriculture Industry?

摘要

Without immigrant labor, the agriculture industry in America will struggle to survive. Currently, federal programs such as the H-2A guestworker program are not meeting the needs of farmers who are attempting to find workers through legal channels. States like Arizona, taking matters into their own hands, may be doing more harm than good. State-specific immigration policies are not the solution for our broken immigration system. Such policies are inherently self-interested and do not take into account the effects that strict, local-level immigration policies have on the nation as a whole. The potential effects of removing immigrant labor from the industry would be devastating. Billions of dollars of production would be lost, along with thousands of jobs. Food prices around the country would inflate, potentially making it difficult for many Americans to put food on their tables.