"Immigration Issues End a Grower's Season"

Today's New York Times features a story about the difficulties of finding workers who can pick 10,000 tomatoes a day. For Pennsylvania farmer Keith Eckel, these challenges have put him out of business. He handled it for 35 years -- proper documents, migrant worker forms, Labor Department forms, and agricultural visa privilege forms, but this year all the right recruitment efforts and the proper forms have failed. Eckel's labor contractor has explained that workers are scared and afraid to travel. Even in the case of people with all the right forms, some are concerned that America and its ever-increasing documentation requirements are simply too difficult, too unwelcoming. For journalist Paul Vitello's full story, click here. Mr. Eckel has not made the decision as to whether he will plant next year.

All three presidential candidates -- Clinton, Obama & McCain, favor a path to legalization for illegal immigrants that includes learning English and paying fines. Both Obama and Clinton would also toughen penalties for illegal immigrants. All three have voted for measures which would secure U.S. borders.