Synopsis
(10/12/2010) It's conventional wisdom that there are some jobs Americans just won't do -- jobs that have to be filled by foreign workers. But that conventional wisdom is being put to the test in the farm fields of southern Georgia. We discovered that in rural Colquitt County, there hundreds of unemployed Americans who say they're ready, willing and able to do this back breaking work, but they aren't getting a chance because the vegetable farms prefer to import foreign guest workers. The farmers say they're just trying to stay in business, the local job-seekers says they're being discriminated against for being American.Also an interview with Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss who has sponsored legislation expanding the guest worker farm program. And a look back at the history of foreign workers coming to American to work the land.
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