You yank the plug on these jobs and you are NOT going to see them filled with American workers...they'll basically just go unfilled, meaning lower productivity, meaning higher prices for EVERYTHING you buy. See how long you can last paying $10-$15 dollars for a 24oz container of fresh strawberries, or $8 dollar loaves of bread...then tell me if cheap labor isn't such a bad thing.

Bullcrap. You pay people enough and they'll do anything.

Bread won't go up in price - the production of wheat is largely mechanized. The cost of produce would certainly rise - who cares? Most Americans spend a tiny fraction of their budget on produce. They'd make back the increased cost of produce on reduced local, state and federal taxes going to support 20+ million illegal immigrants, not to mention the increased wages working class folks in the construction, agricultural and service industries would make. The rest of us would also see our wages rise in tandem.

Who gives a crap if strawberries cost $15 a container if you're making an extra dollar or two an hour? You can afford it, along with little things like healthcare and a college education for your kids.

But if there was literally no longer any border between the US and Mexico it couldn't possibly be a bad thing, in the long run.

In the long run we'll all be dead. In the shorter run, as in our lifetimes, it would be a disaster. Fully half the population of Mexico would end up in our border states within a year. Try feeding and clothing that lot - Mexico sure as hell can't manage it, and they've had a hundred years to deal with the problem.

I won't even mention the tidal wave of immigrants we'd receive from Africa and Asia. Good luck dealing with 100 million immigrants over the course of 5 years. I hope you enjoy living in a crowded, polluted, bankrupt third world nation.

We already provided amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants back in the '80s, during the last round of immigration reform. What did working Americans get in return for letting 5 million illegals immigrate that time around? Another 15 - 30 million in the subsequent decades.

Screw that. Slam the door and bar it shut. Let the rich assholes of Beverly Hills pay $60 a hour for their gardeners instead of $6. It won't kill them.

We have almost a million African American men rotting in our jail system at the moment, most of them in there for the crime of selling drugs to the likes of Britney, Lohan, Paris, the Bush Twins and their chimpanzee of a father. We have close to two million "discouraged workers" on top of at least 7 million who are unemployed but still seeking work. Millions more are on welfare, and none of this includes all of the working poor who are holding down two, three or four low-paying part time jobs while trying to make ends meet.

There's no labor shortage in the US - there's just a slave labor shortage. Tough.