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America has people who are willing and able to replace illegal immigrants as farm labor. They are called Anabaptists -- Mennonites, Amish and Hutterites especially. Mennonites and Amish are subsistence farmers for the most part but the Hutterites work large corporate farms using modern farm equipment.

Suppose we were to deport all of the illegal aliens and close the border. Any farms that depended on them for their labor would be forced to sell out. Anabaptists are running out of room to expand so if farmland in the Southwest became available because of a lack of peasant labor the Anabaptists would surely buy up any farms that became available.

Amish have about nine kids per family so it wouldn't take very long at all for them to expand to fit the agricultural needs of America. These people are good at what they do, Hutterites produce about forty percent of the pork for South Dakota.

Generally speaking, Anabaptists don't make trouble. They won't pick up a gun to save their life, they won't try to take the Southwest and form their own country, and there won't be street gangs of angry young Anabaptists clogging the criminal justice system.

So don't let anyone tell you that Americans won't do the work that illegal immigrants do.

And what about all of those hamburger-flippers at Burger King -- who is going to do that? American teenagers -- they'll do it. I did.

You don't know crap about "Anabaptists" nor have you probably ever met any. Or maybe you met a few in South Dakota and figure you got the whole bunch figured out.

You said, "Mennonites and Amish are subsistence farmers for the most part..." Uh...no. Few Mennonites are farmers any more, and most that are have mega-farms. Beyond that the occupational diversity of Mennonites is similar to that of most Americans.

Many Amish still farm, but mostly on the side. Their main income comes from non-union manufacturing jobs or in skilled building and industrial trades. Most Mennonites and Amish are hard-working and industrious, and earn far more than subsistance-level incomes. Add to that a simple, inexpensive lifestyle and you have people that for the most part are rather well-off.