Right now across America, fruit is rotting on the ground because the crackdown along the border has created a shortage of immigrant workers needed for the harvest.

As a result, American farmers say, they do not have enough workers and fragile fruits are rotting on the vine.

The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.

"Before or after the fruit rotted around you?"

The fruit was rotting and I hated to think of what else we might find here in the apartment.

Factories were closing, fruit was rotting and Christmas supplies were stranded in the Pacific.

The fruits either rots where it falls or its ineffectually disseminated by current dispersal agents.

But in the extreme heat of 110 degrees fahrenheit, the fruit rotted in the pile, and it was well beyond scavenging.

He dropped it upon the dart - and at once, before my eyes, in less than ten seconds, the fruit had rotted away!

The fruit is rotting on the ground because there are not enough people to pick it.