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<itunes:summary>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</itunes:summary>
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<title>What undocumented dairy workers think of immigration reform</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22184/20130617/what-undocumented-dairy-workers-think-of-immigration-reform</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 17, 2013) Dairy farmers - and their workers - have a lot at stake in the immigration debate underway in Washington.A survey by Cornell University found that 2,600 Spanish-speaking people work on New York dairy farms. Of them, two thirds or more are here illegally. That&apos;s in part because there&apos;s no visa program for the kind of year-round workers dairy farms need. The Senate&apos;s reform plan offers dairy farms new options for a legal supply of immigrant labor.Undocumented Latino workers are scattered on bunches of dairy farms in the North Country. David Sommerstein spoke with some of them to see what they think of immigration reform. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22184/20130617/what-undocumented-dairy-workers-think-of-immigration-reform">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dairy farmers - and their workers - have a lot at stake in the immigration debate underway in Washington.A survey by Cornell University found that 2,600 Spanish-speaking people work on New York dairy farms. Of them, two thirds or more are here illegally. That&apos;s in part because there&apos;s no visa program for the kind of year-round workers dairy farms need. The Senate&apos;s reform plan offers dairy farms new options for a legal supply of immigrant labor.Undocumented Latino workers are scattered on bunches of dairy farms in the North Country. David Sommerstein spoke with some of them to see what they think of immigration reform. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22184/20130617/what-undocumented-dairy-workers-think-of-immigration-reform">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>07:19</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, politics, immigration, farming, agriculture, dairy, undocumented, illegal, visa, mexico, latino farm workers, hispanic, tijf, lowville, lewis county, tghl, chpv, [loc:44.5956163 -75.1690942], washington, congress, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>How would legal immigration reshape the North Country?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 17, 2013) Congress remains deeply divided over the shape of immigration reform. A split within the House GOP caucus endangers any kind of new legislation.But let&apos;s imagine for a moment that the several thousand Latinos working on dairy farms in New York and Vermont could get legal working papers.How would that change the region&apos;s rural communities?Tom Maloney of Cornell University has been talking with dairy farmers and Latino dairy workers about this for years. He told David Sommerstein farmers are ready to guide their undocumented workers towards legal status. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22182/20130617/how-would-legal-immigration-reshape-the-north-country">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Congress remains deeply divided over the shape of immigration reform. A split within the House GOP caucus endangers any kind of new legislation.But let&apos;s imagine for a moment that the several thousand Latinos working on dairy farms in New York and Vermont could get legal working papers.How would that change the region&apos;s rural communities?Tom Maloney of Cornell University has been talking with dairy farmers and Latino dairy workers about this for years. He told David Sommerstein farmers are ready to guide their undocumented workers towards legal status. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22182/20130617/how-would-legal-immigration-reshape-the-north-country">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:52</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>economy, photolead, politics, immigration, agriculture, farming, hispanic, latino farmworkers, stlv, tijf, lowville, lewis county, washington, [loc: ] , topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Farmer arrested for employing illegal immigrants</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17404/20110331/farmer-arrested-for-employing-illegal-immigrants</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 31, 2011) Federal agents raided a Jefferson County dairy farm yesterday and arrested the farmer, a week after one of his Hispanic employees died in an apparent accident. 47 year-old John Barney of Adams is charged with harboring illegal immigrants. Todd Moe reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17404/20110331/farmer-arrested-for-employing-illegal-immigrants">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Federal agents raided a Jefferson County dairy farm yesterday and arrested the farmer, a week after one of his Hispanic employees died in an apparent accident. 47 year-old John Barney of Adams is charged with harboring illegal immigrants. Todd Moe reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17404/20110331/farmer-arrested-for-employing-illegal-immigrants">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>02:20</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, agriculture, farming, latinofarm, hispanic, dairy, immigration, criminal justice, adams, tijf, tghl, stlv, [loc:43.8092321 -76.0240892], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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