Businesses are already hurting because of the immigration crackdown

Don't we have Okies anymore?? The Joads would gladly take jobs picking produce!!

CNN tried to make it sound like it was a big deal but after a few days we know now it has had almost no effect. The annoyance was ALL for nothing. It's business as usual.

I don't believe the OP but I'll bite. Too bad. Raise the wages to a fair amount and Americans will take the jobs.

The same would be true if they had employed slaves - yet we would expect them to find a better way.

My mom's cousin's neighbor told me today that hotels are struggling now that illegal immigrants aren't living in them on the tax payer's dimes.

Maybe if there was a policy of fining enablers of illegal immigration, there might be less willingness of people to come illegally because they would not find work. Example: company hires illegal aliens and gets a $5k fine for each instance.

I have noticed hotel prices have come back down. No more $200 a night at the Super 8.

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Migrant farm workers didn’t leave. And most come here LEGALLY as LPRs. Understand the difference. Besides, the ten million that Biden let in haven’t all of a sudden left overnight. Your produce will still get picked. It will just be someone of legal status that has been better vetted and will have more legal protections.

What are farms in ND/SD going to do? Paying people better does not work if there is literally no one to hire. What about those farms in Cali that hire millions of illegals? Where will they get millions of white people to work long hours in the sun?

You though eggs and inflation were at "all time record breaking high" during Bidenomics, wait until you have to pay for "real wage" eggs.

Really? McDonald's can't get "American" workers at $17/Hr and that's a lot easier job than bending over picking produce for 12 hrs in blazing sun.

Maybe people should start cleaning their houses and doing their gardening themselves. I know there is less time for Netflix when that happens. The sacrifices will be really hard.

Good. Maybe the horrors of factory farming and USDA inspection nonsense will make an impression on these hardworking young people and they'll stop supporting the industrial food industry. Ideally they'll quit too so that folks can go back to eating local food, raised where they can see it.

They can. In California the issue is that there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed, but two things are keeping them from working:

1. They get paid by the government to hang out and do drugs.

2. The minimum wage is $20/hour and they aren't worth that amount.

It isn't happenstance that these perverse incentives exist or that the bottom rungs of the ladder have been obliterated. It is by design so that cronies can bilk taxpayers to keep these people suffering in poverty.

What are you trying to say?

What's the point? We need to have stuff made by imported slaves because otherwise we won't be able to waste as much? It almost sounds like you have an Amazon account or something.

There is no issue with food prices or availability when restaurants throw out something like 38% of what they buy. This is a landscape of plenty with immense room for correction and immense room for people to make better decisions.

Here's an example from my personal dinner table: my wife and I live in California where food is more expensive than most places in the United States. For the last two night we have eaten a homemade beef pot pie consisting of 100% grass fed beef, organic wheat flour from Utah, organic (frozen) peas, organic carrots and celery from local farms, 100% grass fed butter from California, and a local pastured egg. The cost of the meal was under $6 per serving per person. And the portions were large. Not everybody can afford that, but it is cheaper than a Big Mac meal from McDonalds, which is toxic and made of trash. All of which to say, some people were already buying real wage eggs, and avoiding the industrial food supply.