No pickers means no produce.

I suspect a lot of this round 'em up and deport them is going to be a lot of noise, PR, confusion, upheaval, and grabbing the low-hanging fruit... and it will cost us billions.

Still, it will get the blowhard the publicity he wants, and in the end, that's all that matters to him.

This all could have been so much simpler, so much more humane, and in the end, cost us way less by just having Congress do its job.

That's a problem we had in the UK immediately post-Brexit. A lot of young people from Eastern Europe used to come to the UK at harvest time to work on the fields. When we left the EU and they no longer had the right to work here, there was a serious agricultural labour shortage and literally tonnes of produce was left to rot in the fields because there were insufficient workers to havest it.

well, they should get minimum wage right? oh but they dont cause theyre illegal? how is that in any way right? sometimes people have to stand up for injustice even if it might hurt them somehow. the sad part is the illegal workers want the money anyway, not to get deported. they want to work and live in the US but they are here illegally. so its really not cool that they are welcomed like that by the corporations and such. if i was looking for a job picking veggies id want at least minimum wage. if they couldnt find work then maybe they wouldnt come. if they are really that necessary then they should come up with like a migrant worker program or something that would be fair to everyone and not exploit them as well as offering the same job opportunities to citizens.

The illegals from other countries and terrorists are a threat to national security.
We let illegals from countries that are in a civil war or anti American countries or those that have violent tendencies against America are the main problem. If you don’t mind illegals then you can support them yourself instead of using taxpayers money.

Here in the UK we adhere to something called the 'Posted Workers Directive' which means a farmer can employ foreign workers and legally pay them a lower wage than the minimum wage a UK worker would be entitled to.
That fact tends to be not so well advertised when the media whinges on about UK citizens not willing to do the work. It's he farmers employing foreign,cheaper labour.

I’m not concerned about the price or who will pick fruit. Enter legally or go back. The money saved by cutting the department of education and the fbi will save us more than enough to subsidize if necessary. The fruit picking seems like a minor issue comparatively. Just something negative for liberals to rail against.

We were doing just fine before illegals came in.

More than one grower has had their workers deported and found themselves unable to hire any citizens to do the work. So they bought machinery. But machinery does not spend a paycheck at the local businesses in town.

Why do you think Republicans are trying to change the age that children can have a full time job? And lets not forget they want to end Public Education.

Robots

Whatever you think, multiply it by a lot.

Read Steinbeck...

There isn't much produce picking going on in NYC, or any of the other "sanctuary cities" where the illegals concentrate.

We can't afford our food now. Wait until we have to pick it ourselves! Also wait until we have to pay for the items we use when we make it. Good luck!

The average worker makes about $13 hr 46+hrs week, seasonal work, mostly men with families and close to 80% are here legally.

Going to be hard to enforce if the farmers get together and are pointing guns at any feds that show up.

As the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times... It'll be a case of bluster runs into reality

Kinda racist