This Associated Press video and corresponding article present information that with Alabama's recent changes to their immigration law, farmers are losing migrant workers and look towards hiring unemployed American citizens to step in. Politicians feel that it's too early to say that the law isn't working and that with the state's 9.9% unemployment rate, unemployed Americans will slowly fill the jobs. This reminded me of how in the past, farmers hired Black workers due to their inexpensive wage rate. Now in the 21st century, farmers are looking towards hiring American citizens to fill in the once regarded "low wage" jobs.
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