http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/12/nation/la-na-ff-immigration-laws-20131013
Over the last couple years states have started to make tighter restrictions on immigration laws, partially due to Arizona's controversial enforcement law. However, states are now stating to back off from enacting immigration laws, and lawmakers are not waiting for the federal government to take a lead.
Robert McMullin's orchards is one of the small business that is being impacted by the immigration law. "We lost $300,000 on that deal because we didn't have enough guys to pick," he said. He relies on a federal program that brings in legal workers from Mexico to work his groves, but the program, which he calls expensive and inflexible, can't always meet his needs. The system needs streamlining, he said. Robert McMullin was relying on a state guest-worker program that was supposed to go into effect this summer which help search for workers, but lawmakers had delayed the program, because they wanted to see how congress was going to handle the immigration laws. States are holding back from pushing any immigration law, because they are hoping that the federal government will handle the situation.
