[gleeaikin]

People who are hoping manufacturing robots will help the problem are not figuring that this requires a lot of training that current lower income US workers may not get or be able to learn. People who think Trump’s charging a 20% import charge rather than charging a remittance export fee won’t hurt food costs are not thinking it through. We will not be expanding food production in US without the people willing to do stoop labor at what Mexicans work for here. In a town like Chincoteague, VA, stores hire girls from Russia and other lower income European places to work in the grocery stores because they can’t get the local labor.

Here is a link from a source you many not like, but there are a lot of pro Trump comments as well as one’s that just bring up potential wall building problems I have not heard here. One was, “where will we build the wall, in the middle of the river or on the US bank, thus ceding the entire river to Mexico,” and creating big problems for people using that water for cattle and agriculture.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625418/-Trump-finally-admits-Mexico-isn-t-paying-for-a-wall?detail=email&link_id=9&can_id=ca5848675fe6d90f9fb124d671640685&source=email-west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized&email_referrer=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized___158837&email_subject=trump-finally-admits-mexico-isnt-paying-for-a-wall

[DoughtyOne]

Nobody said it would be easy.

This is a situation that has been forced on us.

What else is there to do.

We’ve got millions coming over per year, and the cartels own any route they want near our southern border.

[central_va]

Gee, the labor for picking a packing a $2.50 head of lettuce is 3 cents per head. We can afford to double wages to 6 cents and pay Americans to do it. Most other fruits and vegetables are the same. IA ma tiered of throwing away our sovereignty for pennies on the dollar.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

We will not be expanding food production in US without the people willing to do stoop labor at what Mexicans work for here. In a town like Chincoteague, VA, stores hire girls from Russia and other lower income European places to work in the grocery stores because they can’t get the local labor.

Well, once we Trumpize the welfare rolls, there should be plenty of eager applicants.

(of course they'll need remedial education in math and spoken English )

[AdmSmith]

In the next few decades, about 56% of all salaried workers in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam could be displaced by automation and advanced technologies, such as 3D printing.

https://qz.com/727102/robots-are-set-to-take-the-jobs-of-millions-of-asian-workers-in-the-coming-years/

Some 86 % of the reduction of workforce was due to automation and just 14 % to relocation to Mexico and other countries.

There are no simple solutions.

[TomasUSMC]

REPLACE workers with Robots
BUILD ROBOTS HERE in the U.S.A.
SEND ILLEGALS HOME we won’t need them anymore
AMERICAN YOUTH CAN BUILD ROBOTS INSTEAD OF BURGERS.