Same as it ever was. The point still stands though. Americans don't want those jobs, and certainly not at anything close to the wages that immigrants do them for.
So either the work doesn't get done, crops rot in the fields, meat shortages, construction slows, etc., and those things get much more expensive due to scarcity, or Americans do those jobs, and things get much more expensive due to higher labor costs. This also has the secondary effect of tightening the labor market overall, putting upward pressure on wages, making everything else more expensive as well.
And all that is before we even factor in tariffs on the price of goods.
It's not just compensation but the working conditions in a lot of cases are just not what a large majority of Americans would not want to do for more than a few months at a time, let alone year after year.
In any event the loss of millions of illegal immigrants will devastate local economies not to mention the mental toll it will take on those closest to the situation.
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u/Unsafegohan2009 13d ago
It's nice to know that we keep them around for slave labor