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Farmers, migrants in the middle of battle over guest-worker plan.(The Orange County Register)
SANTA ANA, Calif. _ Paul Murai doesn't care about the fine points of why farmers and unions can't agree on a new guest-worker program. All the Irvine grower knows is that it is getting harder and harder to hire enough labor to pick and pack his strawberries.
"As a grower in Orange County, I'd like to see a new guest-worker program," said Murai. "The migrant workers are the only ones who will do our agricultural work."
But Murai will face the new season at the beginning of next year with no new national program in place, despite five years of on-and-off negotiations. And the Nov. 5 congressional elections could figure prominently in whether a deal can be struck next year.
Technically, there already is a guest-worker program on the books. But only 45,000 H-2A guest-worker visas are used each year and only a few hundred are in California. That's because California growers say by the time they fulfill the program's mandate that they spend 45 days looking for U.S. labor, California's perishable crops will be spoiled. And until recently, it has been ...
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