[ARCADIA]

And people have to be willing to suck up the higher prices... starting with landscaping, construction, hotel/motel rates, dinners on the town, the cost of clean rest rooms, etc, etc.

The people have demonstrated their willingness and ability, to absorb a price shock, by paying for higher gas prices these last several months; and, it is not the bottom rung on the economic spectrum that worries about the costs of services at the Marriot country club.

[rhombus]

...and, it is not the bottom rung on the economic spectrum that worries about the costs of services at the Marriot country club.

But seriously it's always bottom rung that ends up paying all the extra FICA costs, unemployment costs, etc, etc. despite the classism that is tossed around about country club Republicans.

[defenderSD]

Americans would do some of the jobs that illegals do if the illegals were all deported, but there wouldn't be nearly enough American workers for many low-skilled jobs. This wouldn't affect country clubs to any extent, but it would financially devastate the lodging, construction, and agricultural industries. The resulting stagflation would destroy the GOP for the next twenty years and give Hillary or some other Democrat a free ride into the White House. In principle the guest worker program is a reasonable and practical solution to this problem, although I'm not an expert on all the details of this proposal. The idea of rounding up and deporting millions of people is also completely impractical and would be politically suicidal for the administration and the GOP.

Now please allow me to don my flame-proof suit before I hit the post button. OK, I'm ready for replies...lol.