Yeah, I'm sure the United States would be on its economic knees if we did not have Mexico on our Southern Border. /sarc
If we are employing 30 million illegal immigrants at $1hr to build our houses, pick our vegetables, clean our houses, watch our kids, mow our lawns, clean our pools, cook our food - etc etc etc - and they suddenly vanished back from whence they came, who's going to replace them at that wage? Or should we just, as a nation, decide to do without those services?
Do you honestly believe we can pay Americans the same wages for the same work? Economically, if that were true, we WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
Migrants migrate because they can find jobs, jobs that Americans either can't or won't do, by definition. If you drive by the day job hiring spots in my part of Northern VA, you won't see many white union guys muscling the brown latinos out of the way to work for $2hr.
I don't like it, at all - I'm more than willing to pay the difference - BUT MOST AMERICANS ARE NOT.
We're not in this fix because Mexicans are just determined to come to the US, we're in this fix because WE KEEP PAYING THEM TO DO IT.