Bryant unsure of migrant labor crackdown’s economic costs
by Ted Carter
Published: March 4,2012
Tags: agribusiness, Alabama immigration law, Arizona immigration law, federal immigration policy, ice, Illegal immigration, INS, Jan Brewer, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, Phil Bryant, Randy Knight
Gov. Phil Bryant says he has no idea what the costs would be to Mississippi’s agricultural sector if a tough anti-immigration law caused undocumented immigrants to leave the state en masse as they have in Georgia and Alabama. While Georgia and Alabama sustained serious economic losses from crops that went un-harvested after the workers left, [...]
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