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Posted on: April 22nd, 2006
Filed Under: [ Business ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ]
Tags: agriculture, border, Mexico, newspaper
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“Despite how Americans in general might feel about workers from Mexico, farmers, especially those in Louisiana, know exactly what their attitudes are toward those who come here from south of the border looking for work.
“They are essential to our operation,” Rhonda Poche said. “We advertise for several weeks in the newspapers to be able get local people to come in and help us. We don’t even get applications. If we had to depend on local help to get our crop out of the field, we might as well plow it under and do nothing, because it’s just not going to happen.””
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