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The only jobs that are hard to fill with American workers are the ones that don't pay a living wage with decent health benefits. If you let some employers import foreign, slave laborers to do their work, for less than what an American would do it for, then all employers will demand the same privilege and claim the same hardships.

You let one group of employers bring in foreign, slave laborers and WE, the American Taxpayers, wind up picking up their tab for health benefits and the cost of policing the program. It will cost more to care for these slave laborers and to see they obey their visas than any benefit derived, by the U.S. Taxpayers, from their presence.

If employers can't pay enough to attract America workers they should get out of that business. That goes double for landscapers and lettuce growers! If Americans won't pay the price you say your product or service is worth than they, obviously, don't want those goods and services.

I don't care, if I never eat another salad, again. I want my country back!

Allowing illegal immigrants to fill jobs that pay so little is really a safety valve for politicans. As long as businesses can find a way to remain in business without rebelling against the huge percentage of their profits taken by taxes from several levels of government and by the cost of complying with federal and state regulations, state and county/city licensing and dealing with inflated costs of materials and supplies which results from government pressure on suppliers, then businesses will bear the situation as long as it's bearable.

If illegals and their cheap labor are taken out of the equation, many, many businesses will begin to rebel in desperation merely to try to stay viable. The federal government eats a massive amount of our GNP. The other levels of governemnt, which are peopled by members of the same two parties who want to move up to the federal level, imitate the feds in writing worthless legislation and regulation and taxing everything imaginable.

That's why I think politicians are going to try to keep the flow of illegals going no matter what we say about it. They have also seen the side benefit of having a new constituency who won't talk back and who will vote for whoever offers the most cookies.