In California, laborers from Mexico and Central America — many of them undocumented — help make it the No. 1 farm state, with over $43 billion in cash receipts in 2011. (Gus Ruelas, Reuters) Related Jun 23:Finally, some common sense out of Washington on immigrationMy family needs immigration reform, Sen. Bennet As an economist, an immigrant and a scholar of the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy, I find that few pieces of legislation have engaged me more than the proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. The most heated debates have been about the path to legal status for those undocumented immigrants who are already in the United States. But this bill does much more...
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