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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We would have better schools if we didn't have educate these little non-English speakers. Time to go home and make Latin America great again instead of working under the table here.[/quote]

Because your kids are going to pick produce, butcher meat and clean hotel rooms and rich people's homes? Alabama tried this. Crops rotted. Landlords went bankrupt. Guest worker program with path to citizenship for those who work is the only way. Terrorizing these folks will just create chaos.[/quote]

When TSA mandated that every screener be a U.S. citizen, there were predictions that "Americans wouldn't do those jobs."

The predictions were wrong of course.  And you've cited a single example without describing any details.  Not convincing at all.[/quote]
DP.   Here's an example of how Americans won't work on farms, even if they pay more than minimum wage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/15/north-carolina-needed-6500-farm-workers-only-7-americans-stuck-it-out/?utm_term=.3f7b4e09ef1e

"That willingness, he finds, is basically nonexistent. Every year from 1998 to 2012, at least 130,000 North Carolinians were unemployed. Of those, the number who asked to be referred to NCGA was never above 268 (and that number was only reached in 2011, when 489,095 North Carolinians were unemployed). The share of unemployed asking for referrals never breached 0.09 percent.

When native unemployed people are referred to NCGA, they're almost without exception hired; between 1998 and 2011, 97 percent of referred applicants were hired. But they don't tend to last. In 2011, 245 people were hired out of 268 referred, but only 163 (66.5 percent) of the hired applicants actually showed up to the first day of work. Worse, only seven lasted to the end of the growing season:"

[img]https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/05/northcarolina_table.png&w=1484[/img][/quote]

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