A surge of enforcement activity against undocumented farm workers by U.S. immigration officials is causing many U.S. agribusinesses to move operations to Mexico, where labor abounds, according to an article by Moises Ramirez of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. 

The article said that Sonora, Baja California, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaro, and Sinaloa were the Mexican states receiving the majority of the investment from U.S. agribusinesses, which include Bill Packer, Frank Capurro & Son, Sahara, Veg Packer, and Driscoll’s, among others. 

A farmer cited in the article said that the foreign investment was increasing land values.