A healthy US economy's secret ingredient: Immigrant workers, eager to fill jobs
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A feed truck is loaded at dawn at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Workers tend to cows in the milking parlor at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Jenni Tilton-Flood poses for a photograph in a dairy barn at Flood Brothers Farm, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Dairy cows await feeding time at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)A worker drives a tractor to the feed silos at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Dawn light colors the sky over a dairy cow barn at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)A worker tends to cows in the milking parlor at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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A feed truck is loaded at dawn at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
