"The economy will survive without opening our borders up to the whole world."
Great. And you'll be taking that day laborer job that comes with below-minimum wage payscale and no dental plan excatly when?
If there are no takers, perhaps the employer might have to pay a decent wage and provide some benefits, eh?
Do you understand that the increasing supply of labor from the south, sought after in our trade agreements of recent decades, drives down wages for American citizens?
Or have you repealed the law of supply and demand?
Do you want a wage race for the bottom with China?
The fact that the illegals are operating outside the system only exacerbates the problem.