Foreign worker

John Harold hired jobless Americans to help on his farm, and says they proved to be less reliable and less willing to perform the hard work than foreign workers.

The LA-based clothing company, American Apparel, is laying off 1,800 immigrant employees after an investigation into its employment records.

A provision in the stimulus package limits the hiring of foreign workers by companies receiving government bailout money — how this might be a bad idea.

Linking unemployment to illegal immigration is popular in this year’s election campaigns, but economists say take a closer look.

Butchering chicken and meat. It’s dangerous, low-paying factory work, and it leans heavily on immigrant workers, sometimes illegally. But some immigrants are deciding to move on from such tough work. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reports from Missouri.