You're not living in the real world if you think Americans are going to accept jobs as cherry pickers. Wake up and smell the coffee.
They wouldn't work as construction workers, either? Besides, you're an economist. Why not let the law of supply and demand dictate the cost of picking cherries. You don't truly believe that unlimited third world immigration is good for our economy, do you? Immigration is controlled in a fashion similar to a water valve and would be virtually limitless as we allowed it. Picking cherries could be a lot cheaper if we wanted it to be. Do you want it to be cheaper? I mean frozen cherries can be had for $1.20 a pound. Go ahead. Tweak the labor supply. I bet you can get them even lower.
"You're unsympathetic to millions of jobless Americans who can't find work. They're worried. Their kids, if they've dared to have any at all, are not getting a decent Christmas this year."
Dear Lord. So an unemployment rate hovering around 5.4% now equates to a national poverty crisis? Get real - you've gotten to the point that you're spewing falsified Democrat talking points to support your agenda. I remember the 80's when 8% unemployment was considered "full employment".
I'm not liking what's going on with immigration either, but if that's the wedge that makes people start drinking the Democrat kool-aid, I think I'll ignore it and stay in the world of the sane.
Qwinn