Broken Lives, Empty Fields - Alabama Farmer's Story - Imigration Law

Alabama Immigration Law and the farming community Brian Cash Owner of K&B Farms, Alabama speaking: "This is a third generation farm. We have a hundred and twenty acres and me and my dad run the farm now. K & B farms. The day after the judge upheld the law I sat right here and paid 64 people. At the end of the day I had eleven. So I went from 64 workers to eleven in one day. Some of these workers have been working in my family for 25 to 30 years.

The ones that have been here their like family to me they were really the first ones to up and leave. They just fear the harassment. The fields have to be cleaned up we lay plastic mulch and have drip irrigation. Stakes and string and all that has to be cleaned up and we don't have anybody left to do that. Which is a going to be a problem for us if we don't get it cleaned up then we wont be able to farm next year anyway. Senator Bason sat up here personally and told us that Alabamians would take the jobs and its just not happening. It pretty much just grinds Alabama agriculture down while everybody else is still flourishing. If I cannot get my normal work force back then I'll not even attempt to farm."