I watched an expose on this very thing recently. The farmers in Colorado, even with the prison inmates who are working on farms there, cannot find enough workers since the state passed new laws on the hiring of illegals. Anyone here offering up any solutions?
Gov. Napolitano passed a law last month that employers who hire illegals will be fined (the first time) and will lose their business license after the second offense.
GA has already passed a similar law, and CA and many other states are close to passing the same.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has repeatedly said that he will build tent cities all the way from Phoenix to the border to house anyone caught in his county illegally.
I think the bills need to be amended to allow prisons to put the inmates to work. I have always been apalled that every inmate costs the tax payers over $40,000 a year - while the able bodied law breakers get free room and board and do nothing meaningful in return.