Originally Posted by After Shock Media

It has been no big secret that our area of Northern CA has been running a little low on illegals. OK it may be a secret at the national level or if you do not live near here. Comes down to this. Up here we grow and produce a whole lot of agriculture. Olives and rice are two very big ones.

Typically during the season of those crops shit goes on like normal, just more Mexicans move into small towns like Orland for a few months. Off season they move elsewhere as there is less work but still enough to keep a bunch around.

There also has been a bunch of hoopla and random checks at farms last year. Well today a olive farm has started like a massive TV advertising campaign to announce a job fair in the olive business. Looking for sorters, general labor, fork lift operators, etc. They say pay is up to 600.00 a week (please note the up to.)

Never that I can recall has the farm business needed to use TV ads and so many of them (like several per hour) to find labor. I want to see this as a good thing. Yet so much tells me it is not. Many farmers are sort of in panic mode right now.

A job fair to find olive sorters -