A growing concern: Farm owners fear immigration laws will hurt business

Posted on: July 2nd, 2006
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“Mellano estimates 60 percent of workers in the nation’s farms are illegal immigrants. He figures that same percentage applies to his 250 employees.

Mellano’s cut-flower business, founded by his Italian immigrant father in 1925, is part of a vanishing breed in the United States. Foreign competition, spurred by relaxed trade barriers and improved shipping methods, has driven many U.S. flower growers out of business.”

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