"WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Some fields in the Pajaro Valley in Northern California's Santa Cruz County are being abandoned because farmers can't find enough workers.
Farmers say there are ten percent to 20 percent fewer workers available to work in the strawberry, raspberry and vegetable fields.
Most farmers attribute the lack of available workers to tightened borders.
One farmer says the labor shortage is the worst he's seen in 30 years.
A spokesman for the Western Growers Association says illegal laborers may make up as much as 80% of the agricultural work in California."
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Where are the American workers that these illegals were putting out of work? Don't they want to work the fields?