or else we wouldn't have tomatoes.
OHHHH pluleeeeeese!! you don't know what you're taking about!!
How many illegals are there picking tomatoes in Europe? Australia? or Canada? The HIGHEST percentage of migrant labor is the US (Dept Labor stats) is 27% in agriculture...
SOOOOOOOOOOOO three quarters of all ag labor is American TODAY! If we weren't flooded with illegals we would have already invested in mechanized tomatoe harvesting! Illegal cheap labor suppresses wages AND innovation as well as capital investment. Are you really dumb enough to hire the illegal on the street corner to install a water heater? nice strawman argument.
The 5% unemployment is bogus and the computation has been rigged since the 80s... we have so many on welfare, there are plenty of home grown Americans that would do menial jobs if we didn't pay them to smoke crack and watch Oprah. They will all fill jobs went we quit subsidizing Sloth... just as when thousands show up for hiring fairs at a new Marriott.
Get real, for a change...
I used to grow my own tomatoes. But I don't really eat tomatoes, so I stopped.