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Originally posted by irseg
Same stuff that I eat now, and that I ate BEFORE the mass illegal immigration from Mexico that really took off 10 or 15 years ago. Food must have magically teleported from farms to supermarkets back then, since it's so obvious no Americans would ever have anything to do with picking vegetables. 
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I don't doubt that you would cheerily pick vegetables all day in the sun, I just doubt you would do it for pennies on the dollar. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't because we have labor laws that protect citizens.
The Republican party is surprising in its brazen attitude towards immigration. Corporations are fully supportive of lax borders and illegal labor--they benefit enormously. They manage to whip their constituents up over the people taking their jobs while employing those people nonetheless. Then people vote against progressives who consistently argue that if people are here and supplementing our luxurious lifestyles we ought to give them priviledges and meet their basic needs, such as, education and emergency medical services.
If you want to curb illegal people working here go after your party's big corporations that hire them and/or exploit them in their own countries. Crimp the cause instead of trying to eradicate the effect.