There are only 2 million unemployed Americans right now. Most of the illegal immigrants have jobs and fill in the gaps, such as working on farms and factories. If the 20 million illegal immigrants are deported, won’t that create a massive laborer shortage? Won’t the work follow the workers to Mexico?
I think is exceedingly hilarious that you think the tomatoes corn peaches and the rest are going to pick themselves and follow the Mexicans,. Peruvians, Argentinians, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans and many more South.
It’s just going to rot in the fields just like last time this happened when Trump took office.
I meant factories. They can be shut down.
I was agreeing with you and stating that food production sectors would be in a immediate crisis. Since this is America, we wouldn’t have starvations so much as the prices of food would rapidly increase again. Labor jobs eventually would migrate to other economies. I agree.
You’re drastically overestimating how much of America’s food is grown in America…
Almost half the food grown in America just flat out is never eaten:
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/40-of-the-food-produced-in-the-us-never-gets-eaten-heres-why/
Frankly if half never makes it out of the field, it’s not that different.
But that still wouldn’t happen, the vast majority of migrant laborers are here working legally. We’d lose some, but nowhere near what you and OP are acting like. Normally it would result in higher wages for legal migrant workers. Which would increase the amount coming up for it.
With trump tho (even Biden) they want to shut down all border crossing at the drop of a hat. That would have a noticable effect.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/can-biden-really-shut-border-rcna136139
it’s one of the almost uncountable reasons Biden was likely going to lose to trump, they agree on too much and are too similar.
Tell me you’ve never worked on a farm in less words next time.
https://agamerica.com/blog/the-impact-of-the-farm-labor-shortage/
Literally grew up on one that had been in my family for generations…
Lol. Your link is a group arguing for subsidies for corpo farms
I worked in the fields picking tomatoes as a teenager and I went to school with the migrant agra workers children that I would pick the tomatoes with in the summer. There are a few farmers in my family. . What kind of farm? How has finances been the last 10 years? Do you have money to pay two to three times per bushel?
Wot?
Farmer s have worse margins than most restaurants. Most farmers live season to season. Get large loans to be able to repair their machinery and purchase seed and then after the harvest that money that they make is immediately paid back into that system. If there is a mass deportation of cheap farm labor than most, farmers will not be able to economically afford to pay higher costs for that labor.