undocumented migrants. governor desantis called it the most ambitious legislation in the country. some farmers are learned that the new immigration law could lead to a shortage in workers, especially since they rely on foreign nationals to do agricultural jobs that americans don t want. cnn s gary tuchman has that story. it s 7:30 a.m. in humid north florida. the beginning of a long day. on a large farm. where hired workers are in the middle of harvesting roughly 2.2 million watermelon, about 32 million pounds worth, over the course of about six weeks, with more than 150 people working to harvest the watermelon. i ask former owner trevor bass this question. how many u.s. citizens pick crops on your farm? none. zero. zero? zero. actually, on this day, there is one u.s. citizen.
150 people working to harvest the watermelon. i asked farm owner trevor bass this question. how many u.s. citizens pick crops on your farm? none. reporter: zero? zero. reporter: actually, on this day, there is one u.s. citizen, me. i requested a chance to work for one day on this farm, to learn more about why so many farmers have such a difficult time getting americans to work on their pharmacy. farms. this watermelon is ripe. it s ready. you turn it over to the yellow part is on top. so then the people who pick it up know it s ready, because they see the yellow part on top. everyone i m working with here is from mexico, all part of the u.s. government s guest worker program known as hh2a. they can hire under the h2a program as long as they follow strict provisions, which means only hiring them after they tried to employ americans first, which the farm owner did and got no takers.
gary tuchman decide to see just how difficult it remains. it is 7:38 am in north florida, the beginning of a long day. and, a large farm, we are hired workers are in the middle of harvesting roughly 2.2 million watermelon, about 32 million pounds worth over the course of about six weeks. with around 150 people working to harvest the watermelon. i asked for one or trevor bass this question. how many u.s. citizens pick crops on this farm? none. zero. actually, on this day, there is one u.s. citizen, me. i requested a chance to work for one day on this farm, to learn more about why so many farmers have such a difficult time getting americans to work on their farms. so this watermelon is, ripe it is ready, turn it over so the yellow part is people pick it up, know it is
hundreds of miles. and so, you don t have to have quite as much of the u.s. navy covering the pacific. you could target it more accurately and avoid the weather as they had to do on this mission that they were already plunging back to earth when they decided to shift the landing spot from off san diego to south of baja. i asked bill nelson this question last week about whether the success of this mission at all moves up the timeline, which has already been delayed a number of times for manned mission to orbit mars and to land on mars. do you see any possibility of that? i think that is still a long way away. i think the assembly of future artemis missions is still more likely to slip than to get sooner. artemis two which is just let s send a few people around the back of the moon and home is
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