I posted it because it highlights the stark 180 in a decade.
The simple solution... is get in line, to the back of the line. I promise you Loki, having traveled all over the world, there are a vast amount of qualified people that would give their eye teeth to come into this country and work. The farming industry, housing industry, landscaping industry, and other financial sectors you noted did not magically begin with illegal immigrants. They didnt invent the industries and America was doing just fine prior.
Again, there is the line, have you papers ready, have your clean-criminal and health record ready and pay your fees.
If you're needed you will be hired and welcomed. It's called a hiring process and we've all gone through one.
Per the deficit it may cause to the economy over 10 years, l'm confident the need-basis replacement workers who will now be paying taxes, along with processing fees which run into at least $1000, along with their daily living expenses, etc, would even that up. America is not going to default just because illegals are made to leave. As your link stated, many of the jobs will be filled by out-of-work Americans and legal immigrants. Right now there's a whole class of young people that will never get a job. That will change.
As l noted elsewhere, 800,000 illegal immigrants in CA alone recently signed up for a driver's licence. That means there are 800,000 people right now that are either collecting welfare or collecting a tax-free paycheck. That is 800,000 positions not being filled by Americans and legal immigrants and that is in one State alone. Can you honestly tell me that's not going to change the dynamic of Americans' lives.
Finally, to give you a real example ...here in Philadelphia, Superfresh Markets had gone into a depressed neighborhood and opened a brand new market. They held a hiring weekend - almost 700 people lined up in the scorching heat with their suits and their dresses and resumes. For a Supermarket job. No one can tell me people don't want to work and that they won' do the jobs that illegals are doing. Illegals dont have the blueprint to manual work or labor jobs. I could continue but you get my point.
There have been some studies and some evidence, when it comes to the farming industry, that Americans simply will not do the hard work, especially when it comes to harvesting by hand...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...0f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.543b5ac29dce
"If we lose the workers who are here illegally, it’s hard to see how they’ll be replaced, because Americans are reluctant to take these jobs, particularly the ones harvesting crops. There’s a lot of evidence for this, both anecdotal and statistical, including
a particularly compelling case study done in North Carolina in 2011. That year, 489,000 people were unemployed statewide. The North Carolina Growers Association listed 6,500 available jobs. Just 268 of those 489,000 North Carolinians applied, and 245 were hired. On the first day of work, 163 showed up, and a grand total of seven finished the season. Of the mostly Mexican workers who took the rest of the jobs, 90 percent made it through to the end."
There can also be unintended negative consequences as per below..
"What happens when labor prices increase? What if we raise pay from the current rates — about $12 an hour — to, say, the minimum wage that many are advocating, $15 an hour?
I checked in with a few agricultural economists — Jayson Lusk at Oklahoma State University, Philip Martin at the University of California at Davis, and a USDA economist who spoke on the condition of anonymity because public statements would require agency authorization — to understand how that change would reverberate through the food supply.
A wage increase will mostly affect fruits and vegetables, because commodity crops — corn, soy, wheat, cotton, and others — are highly mechanized, so most of the work is done by machines. With produce,
about a quarter of every dollar we spend at the supermarket goes to the farmer. A third of that quarter — about 8 cents of your produce dollar — goes to the farmworker.
If wages increased 25 percent (from $12 to $15), and that cost were passed on to us, produce prices would rise 2 to 3 percent. The yearly impact would be in the range of $30 per household, certainly affordable for many but not for all.
But would the costs get passed on to us? It’s a critical question, and it’s hard to answer. Small increases might, but the supply chain might also respond in other ways. Martin told me in an email that “historically, rising ag wages led to labor-saving mechanization or imports, and food cost as a share of household spending has been falling.” If that’s what happens, you won’t see that increase in the grocery store because either farmers invest in machinery to reduce labor costs or the supply chain turns to imports.
That means smaller farmers, without the economies of scale to support mechanization, are going to have the hardest time."
This is why I say that illegal immigration can be a very complex situation Bliss, and these are just a few examples, a "get in line and wait your turn" solution makes sense on the surface, but would bring about massive implications on multiple levels. I have always favored a guest worker (track them, they are allowed in for a fixed period of time, they are taxed, a certain % of their $ is held in the US,ect.) program, but it seems like every common sense legislation that would make this a reality gets shot down.
