Reference: Texas needs migrants, Bangkok Post, August 30, 2007

I have no doubt that Governor Perry is right that Mexican migrants are an economic necessity in Texas. My personal experience is that they are an economic necessity in the California wine industry as well. Grape harvesting, vineyard management, and the great annual grape crush in the Napa and Sonoma wine regions of California are carried out almost exclusively by migrant labor from Mexico. The California wine industry in its current form and size cannot sustain itself without these hard working individuals. God bless them.

Cha-am Jamal