[HeartlandOfAmerica]

“If we don’t have a meaningful, workable program, we’ll simply be dependent on foreign imports for food products, the way we’re dependent on foreign imports for oil products,”

No! Without the illegals, the system will equalize itself out. Either the growers offer a bigger wage to attract people or develop the technology to do the work. It's been done before, many many times.

Saying that they've allowed illegals in to do this is deceptive and a lie. We CAN do without them. I don't care if I pay an extra quarter for a head of lettuce. It's the price we pay for all kind of other products. Taken a look at the rises in the price of gas lately? Products rise in price, its a fact of life in a capitalist society. Products rise in price and salaries rise in pay.

It's worked for over 200 years. Don't know why people keep insisting that it doesn't work anymore.

[jnsun]

No! Without the illegals, the system will equalize itself out. Either the growers offer a bigger wage to attract people or develop the technology to do the work. It's been done before, many many times.

Thank you!

It is not even close that the US "needs" the illegal labor, for agriculture, or other industries for that matter. This is total lobbyist (self-serving) poppycock. Those politicians who are sincere enough (if there are any)to really believe this are simply over their head.

Either way, they are ignorant or whores. That's the "leadership" we have elected.