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No, I think that immigration reform has to come first or at the same time. As it is, the Trump administration is expending tremendous resources and political capital on things like tearing babies away from mothers, while not working on immigration reform, and taking away resources from things like actually pursuing drug and human traffickers at the border (which everyone can agree is important).  A practical approach would likely recognize that trying to deport everyone that we have here now would be tremendously costly, so that would have to factor in.

If your overriding focus is "ILLEGALS ARE BAD!!"  then that gets in the way of thinking rationally about policy.  [/quote]

You don't have to deport people. You just have to make employment and the use of public resources impossible, and people will stop coming.  People come for better economics, and if this becomes impossible, there is no incentive to come.[/quote]

Which does not answer my original question: how do you propose to run the economy without enough low-skilled workers?[/quote]

By employing low-skilled Americans and improving conditions in these jobs - rather than accepting as given that industries should stay in business by maintaining a poorly paid, right-less underclass. [/quote]

nope the answer is automation.  People aren't supposed to survive on a low-skilled job.  You start there and then you are supposed to move up.  These idiots think they should be paid 15 bucks an hour for being a fry cook at McDonalds for life lol.  [/quote]

Automation is a slippery slope as well, as it eats up jobs.  But unfortunately, it's a necessary evil.  As I see it, this problem is far more complicated than it appears to be, as it involves work ethic, which many people seem not to understand; OTJ training; and ethical business owners who keep employees on the books.

So the fry cook making $15 an hour should move on up eventually with the right training. If s/he decides to move on, then those experiences should still benefit him/her in another job.  Unfortunately, some don't excel in these jobs, as they don't stay for very long.  "It's demeaning. It's exhausting. It's a dead end job."  yada yada

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