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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s program to replace fleeing migrant farm workers with probationers backfired when some of the convicted criminals started walking off their jobs because field work was too strenuous, it was reported Wednesday.

And the state’s farms could lose up to $1 billion if crops continue to go unpicked and rot, the president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council warned.



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from the article ‘Georgia immigrant crackdown backfires’ by Reid J. Epstein:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57551.html

Guys I don’t know how to change my icon with the new Tumblr layout and I feel really pathetic.

Halp?



Old City. Tblisi, Georgia. 2010