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Washington - A partner in Wisconsin's largest Christmas tree farm, John Ahl is watching the immigration debate closely. Most of the 125 employees of Northern Christmas Trees & Nursery near Black River Falls are temporary workers from Mexico.
Ahl, 54, who with his wife and her parents has a 6,600-acre operation, said he was hard-pressed to hire locals for jobs starting at about $10 an hour, tending trees, shrubs and nursery plants. Even those without many skills prefer air-conditioned office jobs to what Ahl called "stoop labor" in Merrillan.See the full content of this document
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State's Farms Cultivating Migrant Labor
"The dairy farmers, they all have migrants now," he said, "and you can go right down the list: pickles, cranberries, cucumbers, lettuce, cabbage, just about any agricultural product that has hand labor involved."
With the Senate poised for key votes on immigration reform today, the state's nee...See the full content of this document
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