From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Farm labor, immigration, and food security.

Hello again, I'm Aronalny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

A federal judge gave U.S. employers, including farmers, temporary relief yesterday,

from one kind of immigration enforcement.

But planting, cultivating, and harvesting have been seriously disrupted

by the crackdown on illegal workers.

Some of the fields in Colorado are being worked by prison inmates. Some farmers have

already moved from California to Mexico. On to the point, why can't legal workers take up the slack?

Is it only about cheap labor? What about the reliability and safety of the food supply? On reporter's

notebook later on, Vice President Cheney, the expansion of executive power and the Constitution.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. American farmers insist that immigration

enforcement has dried up the supply of farm labor. Some are resorting to prison inmates and others

are moving to Mexico. On To the Point, are legal workers available and affordable? Is there

a risk to the security of the food supply?

On reporter's notebook, Vice President Cheney's 30-year effort to expand the power of the White

House, is it a threat to constitutional democracy? First, this news update, Turkey says it's not

withdrawing its ambassador to the U.S., but it is asking him home for a week or so of consultations. This comes in the

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