Immigration Law

SOUTHSOURCING

By Greg Siskind

I posted Stephen Colbert's hilarious coining of this term a few months back. But companies simply moving their operations to Mexico (where, as Colbert notes, there is unlimited access to Mexicans), is no joke. Markets have a way of winning out when government's try and limit trade and immigration. I like to tell folks who try and pretend there are plenty of Americans ready to work our farms, "If you like imported oil, you're going to LOVE having to import all of our food." And that's exactly where we're headed.

[UPDATE] Here's another story from Florida on a farmer in that state who is doing the same thing.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).