Right now MS13 controls the US southern border, so if we opened the border we would be denying MS13 people jobs, they would protest, the ACLU would come to their aid...
What about the Canadians? What would happen to Detroit if a wave of politeness suddenly hit the city in droves?
This sounds like the "what if we just legalized drugs" argument to me. Edit: on inventing onion harvesting machines... what's also done often is to reinvent the plant. So, we might get onions that are tough enough to withstand mechanical harvesting. They will taste like cardboard, like tomatoes, of course.
Some of you so-called conservatives on this board seem all too willing to give away the country. If that is where you stand, imagine where the liberals stand. So, why do some of you get so upset with the liberals who post here??? At least they admit they are liberal. They don't hide behind some big freaking fat paycheck. Wake up! Nobody belongs in this country unless they are a freaking citizen! Am I getting thru yet, "conservatives"? LOL Send home every criminal tresspasser in the United States Of America, now! And don't give me some crap about lettuce costing 10 dollars a head. It ain't about lettuce, it's about the DAMN COUNTRY. Anything ringing a bell, yet??? Have you people become so weak-minded and hell-bent on making a dollar, that the country doesn't matter anymore? Pathetic...why do some of you even complain? Get rid of illegals, now! It will produce jobs here in OUR country. Those vegetables will most certainly grow in Mexico just as easily as they will grow in the USA. Yes, they will. And, they will be grown properly or they won't make it across the border. (You see, this provides incentive/motivation. Hope those words don't offend too many of you.) Everybody has a choice in this life. What's yours?
Garbage. There are no problems with the agriculture industry in Georgia, and those laws (e-verify) haven't even taken effect yet. You're reading propaganda from the Agra industry whining about their cheap labor going back to Mexico, which hasn't even happened yet. If the nation "opens the border" it will cease being a nation. If there aren't enough people to work ag jobs, that's because the ag job salaries aren't high enough, period. If they can't find enough (legal)workers, then they need to raise their wages until it attracts enough legal workers, and that's all there is to it. Anyone who genuinely cares about poor people or employment (of Americans) should be a passionate supporter of deportation and the prevention of illegal immigration. We're in the middle of an unemployment crisis and these sheisters are trying to sell the notion that they can't find labor? Well, then it's time to raise wages, and that's called the labor market.
A country that is sporting a 9.1% unemployment rate does not get to complain about a shortage in labor. The argument that they are jobs that American's wont do also doesn't float. There are millions of American's that would do these jobs if there wasn't a big government tit to suck.
most teenagers today are complete pussies. of course they should but the bleeding hearts will never stand for it
The Republicans got something like that passed under Clinton and it continued during the Bush years and it was working at getting people off welfare and into the workforce. But, one of the first things Obama, Reid and Pelosi did in 2009 was to return welfare to a free handout without strings.