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    Administration Attempts to Relax Visa Regulations for Farmworkers

    Yesterday's Los Angeles Times reported that a shortage of farm workers threatens to leave un-harvested fruits and vegetables rotting in fields nationwide. The Departments of Labor , State and Homeland Security say they're trying to help farmers who are threatened with a shortage of workers to harvest crops.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Yesterday's Los Angeles Times reported that a shortage of farm workers threatens to leave un-harvested fruits and vegetables rotting in fields nationwide. The Departments of Labor, State and Homeland Security say they're trying to help farmers who are threatened with a shortage of workers to harvest crops. It's all about the complex process required for hiring legal workers and the stepped up enforcement that’s cutting supplies of illegal ones.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Bloomberg News

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      President, Nisei Farmers League

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    1 of 3
    Diplomacy or Interference in Pakistan?
    1. 0:00Administration Attempts to Relax Visa Regulations for FarmworkersYou’re reading this
    2. 1:42PM Brown to Pull Half of British Troops Out of Iraq by Spring
    3. 7:34Politically Turbulent Times in Pakistan
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