If we had good high school technical and industrial education for our students who are not college bound, there would be far less need for immigrants. When I was in high school in the 1950s we could choose the Liberal Arts College track, the Science College track, the Office and Clerical track, or the Industrial Skills track. Do schools have anything like that these days?
With the teachers unions and colleges having succeeded so royally in mucking up education, we unfortunately seem to need another four years of schooling to get people often still to a lesser level of basic education.
But most illegals come here themselves uneducated and they learn on the job—in large part because taxpayers subsidize the cost of illegal laborers, who regularly undercut our low-skill citizens in the market.
And I get it, for those like you of limited mobility and likely dependent on social security, etc., you favor anything that at its most immediate keeps consumer prices down. But as I pointed out, even going to the threatened, not likely to be imposed, highest level of tariff, at 25%, would only raise produce prices approximately 6%.
And American sovereignty and the future of the country are yes, more important than subsidizing fresh, year-round berries from Mexico for purchase those of low-income and low-mobility.
Basic food is still relatively incredibly cheap in the US.