Other industries are feeling the squeeze. There aren't enough crab pickers in Maryland (Good! More for me! I pick my own! Maryland crabs should be for the restaurant/tourist trade. The state makes a lot more money on restaurant crabs than they do on canned crab)
or horse walkers in Saratoga (Boo FReepin' hoo)
. Tourism bureaus all over the country are fretting about understaffing (and unemployment bureaus around the country are fretting about the lack of entry-level jobs. Whatever could be the solution to these twin problems?)
. Fewer immigrants will mean fewer landscapers (mow your own damn lawn)
, construction workers (pay a living wage)
, dishwashers (pay an American kid $10/hr)
and pizza delivery drivers (the nation screeches to a halt!)
. Americans who want to hire a housekeeper or nanny might have to search harder, and pay more (like people getting paid more is a bad thing?)
All of these complaints tell you what social class the journos think that they belong to. So what they are doing is masking their own self-interest in cheap labor as magnanimity, and paying for it by denying better-paying jobs to native born Americans.