"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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Not if there are no jobs. Tighter enforcement at the employer level
would
keep many more illegals at home.

Of course, there is no evidence of any desire to actually do that.

Not so long as corporate America can buy all the Congressional votes it
needs.

So we should go ahead and exploit the immigrants.

The immigrants want to be exploited, it's how they feed their families. So
unless you can suggest how American agricultural will replace millions of
low-wage workers, what alternatives are there? Seriously, if we could
magically whisk every illegal alien out of the country and keep them from
coming back, the first effect you would notice is a huge jump in your
grocery bill as crops rotted in the field. Given the current state of govt.
finances it seems unlikely you would see any corresponding drop in your
taxes due to reductions in welfare or education or medical care for
illegals, so what exactly would you gain from this event?

Americans won't pick fruit and vegetables for minimum wage or not much more
than that. So how precisely do you plan to get those crops from the fields
to your grocery store?