There are only 2 million unemployed Americans right now. Most of the illegal immigrants have jobs and fill in the gaps, such as working on farms and factories. If the 20 million illegal immigrants are deported, want that create a massive laborer shortage? Won’t the work follow the workers to Mexico?

    • Forester@yiffit.net
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      1 month ago

      I was agreeing with you and stating that food production sectors would be in a immediate crisis. Since this is America, we wouldn’t have starvations so much as the prices of food would rapidly increase again. Labor jobs eventually would migrate to other economies. I agree.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        You’re drastically overestimating how much of America’s food is grown in America…

        Almost half the food grown in America just flat out is never eaten:

        https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/40-of-the-food-produced-in-the-us-never-gets-eaten-heres-why/

        Frankly if half never makes it out of the field, it’s not that different.

        But that still wouldn’t happen, the vast majority of migrant laborers are here working legally. We’d lose some, but nowhere near what you and OP are acting like. Normally it would result in higher wages for legal migrant workers. Which would increase the amount coming up for it.

        With trump tho (even Biden) they want to shut down all border crossing at the drop of a hat. That would have a noticable effect.

        “It would also give me, as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it can get back under control,” Biden said at South Carolina’s “First in the Nation” dinner. “If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”

        https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/can-biden-really-shut-border-rcna136139

        it’s one of the almost uncountable reasons Biden was likely going to lose to trump, they agree on too much and are too similar.