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?
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.
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.
Tell me you’ve never worked on a farm in less words next time.
https://agamerica.com/blog/the-impact-of-the-farm-labor-shortage/
Literally grew up on one that had been in my family for generations…
Lol. Your link is a group arguing for subsidies for corpo farms
I worked in the fields picking tomatoes as a teenager and I went to school with the migrant agra workers children that I would pick the tomatoes with in the summer. There are a few farmers in my family. . What kind of farm? How has finances been the last 10 years? Do you have money to pay two to three times per bushel?