Farmers Call Crackdown on Illegal Workers Unfair

"Facing the prospect of major layoffs of farmworkers during harvest season, growers and lawmakers from agricultural states spoke in dire terms yesterday about new measures by the Bush administration to crack down on employers of illegal immigrants. ?This is not just painful, this is death to the American farmer,? Maureen Torrey, who runs a family dairy and vegetable farm in Elba, N. Y., said in a telephone interview." New York Times, Aug. 11, 2007.