“If a farmer can’t get a legal worker (a high school kid or an adult) to work in their fields, then they need to either raise the wages, or start using mechanized pickers.”
That’s right; instead, companies do an end-run around “the market”. Any American earning over $30K has forces at work either sending their job overseas or importing immigrants (legal or otherwise) to do it. That is the stark reality facing the American middle class today, and it won’t be improving any time soon. The best hope for the American worker is a nuclear war between India and China and a conventional war between Mexico and the Philippines; nothing against those people, but that’s the truth.
Agree completely. It is time to focus on issues that will create a more prosperous USA that has a real economic base that provides jobs where they can send their kids to college and serve as assets to society instead of liabilities. We need much more in our USA economy than bankers, Wall St financiers and Wal-Mart. The expansion of both have been more negative than a positive for our long term mainstream economy.
Massive immigration that can not assimilate (legal and other) has hurt the creation of a stronger economy. It is pushed by elites of both Parties, and is intended to keep American wages depressed, change our culture and overpopulate the country.