[speekinout]

We grow our own tomatoes. The bonus--they actually taste like tomatoes, unlike the cardboard tomatoes you get at the supermarket.

You know, don't you, that we got the cardboard tomatoes when the last guest worker program went away, and the growers had to find a tomato sturdy enough to be picked by machine.
There may be Americans willing to do the job, but not enough of them, and not reliably enough.

Fresh peas are already rare for the same reason. What produce will we lose next?

[SJackson]

Fresh peas are already rare for the same reason. What produce will we lose next?

If peas can't be produced legally in the US, we'll have to import them.

[MizSterious]

Produce is minor. We can pay real workers real wages, or start learning to do some gardening. The so-called benefits of illegal workers are costing us millions if not more. From hospital ER rooms (used as primary care, and paid for by tax payers because the illegals don't have insurance) to education to the increased crime rates to the utter and complete contempt with which they view our laws and society--they're costing us more than they're worth.

[Boiling point]

So the price will have to go up to cover production cost. What about housing cost? The price of homes should go up by only the same amount as they went down when the illegals started building them (sarc).

[RFT1]

LOsing crops is a very small price to pay compared to the social problems that have and will be created by importring cheap labor.

[Xenophon450]

Or you can spend one day planting 5 tomato plants and then a little preventative maintenance everyday such as watering pruning, and have all the fresh tomatoes you can eat.