Democrats have been telling us for months that vegetables will die on the vine if we don't import illegal aliens and pay them slave wages to pick them. Sen. Alex "José" Padilla says that fruit is literally rotting because illegals are too afraid to come to work, afraid they'll be detained.

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… Instead, he’s targeting the essential workers who put food on our tables—and crippling the agricultural industry in the process.

Maybe the agricultural industry should have relied so heavily on illegal immigrants for workers. Pity that poor cherry farmer, but the illegal immigrants they busted (including unaccompanied minors) on Tuesday were growing pot — not a staple of the American diet.

Harmeet K. Dillion laid the smackdown on Padilla.

There are seasonal work visas for immigrants to work on farms legally. They're called H-2A visas.

Don't build an economy on the backs of illegal immigrants doing slave labor and you won't have a problem.

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