Georgia's Governor Deal proposed that the 11,000 openings — which, he suggested, should be filled with some of the state's 100,000 ex-convicts, about 25% of whom are unemployed.
However, a few weeks ago, in a documentary of a local television station, several ex-convicts and the reporters were trying to work for a day in the cucumber fields and they declared it was one of the most difficult jobs they have ever done. So how realistic is governor's plan to protect Georgia's agriculture industry from the predictable effects of enacting one of the harshest immigration law in the nation, (the law took effect July 1, 2011), is yet to be seen. Please click on the title to read the entire article from Time Magazine.
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