The NYT editorial "Farms and Immigrants" (link) supports the recently re-introduced AgJobs farmworker amnesty/indentured servitude bill:

Because it’s hard to find Americans willing to endure the heat, cold and misery of stooping in the fields - or the low wages - growers overwhelmingly use undocumented workers. An estimated 75 percent or more of the agricultural work force is here illegally. This is bad for everybody. Undocumented workers are easy prey for exploitation and unable to assert their rights. Growers constantly complain about labor shortages and are vulnerable to disruptive immigration raids.

The NYT solution to the problem of "jobs americans wont do" is to import a foreign serf class rather than making changes to farm work - such as mechanization and easier working conditions - where it would be appealing to more Americans. And, through their constant support for illegal immigration, the NYT has played a role in enabling the exploitation they complain about. As for the growers complaining, much of that is simply propaganda that was "planted" into sympathetic news sources; see the crops rotting in the fields entries.

The bill helps to bolster labor rights, while also making it easier for growers to hire more temporary immigrant workers - after advertising and recruiting for Americans. Most critical, it includes a path to legal status and eventual citizenship for undocumented workers if they have clean records and pay fines and back taxes.

That "advertising" would probably be similar to H1B advertising: designed in such a way as to ensure that no Americans apply. And, Andrew Rosenthal avoids mentioning that in order to stay on the path to citizenship they'd have to work in agriculture for three to five years. Disclosing the indentured servitude aspects of the bill would no doubt offend his readers' delicate liberal sensitivities.

In a climate of seemingly permanent stalemate and rancor over immigration, a bill that has the support of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the advocacy group Farmworker Justice obviously has something going for it.

If the bill were accurately described to a large number of Americans, the vast majority would oppose it.