[Conservative_Nationalist]

That's a stupid reply. Are you saying we need illegal immigrants doing this work? The cost of produce would rise a little while the money that goes to these entitlement programs that these guys abuse could be given back to us. Anyone who thinks we "NEED" illegal immigrants for cheap labor is just completely ignorant.

[dmz]

The employers would just have to raise the wages for those jobs.
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The above is a quote from you. (and I'll pass on the fact that you referred to my reply as stupid, while making the above comment).

Tell me, exactly what mechanism would the state use to make the employers raise the wages for those jobs? What government agency would need to be created to oversee that? Or would the employers out of the goodness of their hearts, based on what's good for America, simply do it? How many employers do you know that seek to pay higher wages than they need to?

I never said we *needed* the illegals to do the work, but I did make the point that our standard of living as a nation does, in some measure, depend on cheap sources of labor, and I'm not speaking simply of the agricultural sector, but also manufacturing.