They make beds, kill pigs, pick apples, wash dishes.

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But growers aren't currently seeking to hire prisoners, who pick far fewer apples a day than immigrant laborers do.

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But it's those same growers who are now complaining that they aren't able to find American workers who are willing to pick a variety of crops that can't be harvested by machine -- peaches, plums, apples, lettuce, tomatoes, avocadoes, nectarines, strawberries, blueberries, apricots, table grapes, etc.

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