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RE: If we were to deport all illegal aliens, "our agricultural system would collapse.
there is a lot of farming that is still labor intensive - especially in the smaller farms where mechanization isn't a financial viable option..(scale of operation).
I'm not arguing your point. - I agree with you - it will only improve wages.
(coming from a farming family - I know this generally, not the US agricultural industry)
Not in the US there isn't.
I drove a school bus for five years in the eighties.
when I started the School District that I drove for had six or seven (perhaps more) large 72 passenger buses...they pretty much filled them up.
When I stopped driving only three remained...and they were never more than half full.
Farmers were mechanizing...or using mechanized contractors to do the work that 'hired hands' used to do. They had to leave and go somewhere else...and take their children with them.
in the late eighties..
you reckon the trend has continued?
probably lol.
the thing is, - in farms where it is labor intensive- reduce labor supply = increase in wages
then perhaps they should immigrate to THOSE places?