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[In other words: make businesses close down or move to Mexico, because they couldn't stay in business.
I guess you want to pay $20/lb for strawberries too.]

If $20 per pound for strawberries is what it takes to live in a country where the rule of law means something, count me in. If you want cheap strawberries, move south.

If businesses cannot remain solvent without illegal labor, then we have problems other than one of immigration.

If the minimum wage is too high, lower it.

If your product cost is too high with legal workers, get out of the business.

If there are not enough legal workers, increase the quotas for LEGAL workers.

A simplistic statement that we must have illegal workers or our businesses will die isn't working towards a viable solution. I think we can do better than that.

"If businesses cannot remain solvent without illegal labor, then we have problems other than one of immigration.

If the minimum wage is too high, lower it. "

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BINGO.

My point exactly. Take away welfare from strong, healthy people, and thus take away the incentive to lay about, instead of working, eliminate minimum wage, and in a while there will be more Americans willing to do menial work, which they shun now, because it's easier to sit and collect welfare.