Well, I agree, we don't really HAVE to import them.
American workers should be doing the work. But paying them a decent wage would affect the economy that Bush keeps bragging is so good (but is riding on and dependent upon paying a slave wage.)IMO, that is why no president from either party is ever REALLY willing to address the issue.
Send them all home, to hell with "guest workers."
When Americans get hungry enough, they will get up off the couch, pick vegetables fruit and slaughter livestock or they will starve...
I will respectfully disagree with you. Paying American workers a decent wage to do this work would not wreck our economy, because workers who make money spend it on goods and services; welfare recipients can spend far less than employed people, and cumulatively are a drag on an economy. In addition, the resulting reduction in levels of crime, both generated by illegal immigrants and by unemployed innner-city dwellers, saves billions in other ways. The reduction in health-care, social services, and educational costs will save more billions.