"People forget that everything they eat is likely to have been touched by somebody who didn't have papers," Mr. Ezekiel said. "Whether restaurants, grocery stores or an incredible wine tasting in Napa Valley, the harvesting, the pruning somewhere along the way it's hard for me to imagine some undocumented immigrant didn't play a role in that."
Precise numbers for unauthorized immigrants in the United States are understandably hard to come by, and in an election season, highly political. But the Pew Research Center estimates that they make up roughly 3.4 percent to 4.4 percent of the American workforce, including nearly 12 percent of all food service workers and 25 percent of farm workers.
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