With all the current debate about immigration policy we decided it was great time to repost this episode from January 2017. Economist Jerry Nickelsburg, Director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast guides us through the weeds explaining not only agriculture’s huge reliance on undocumented migrants to work the fields, why undocumented workers actually benefit the US Treasury (hint: more than half pay income tax, yes, income tax) and the surprising outcome of laws in Georgia and Alabama the eliminated migrant laborers from the fields.