What would happen to food prices & the economy, if immigrants were repatriated?

There's no plan to repatriate all immigrants. There is continued enforcement of immigration laws, which results in the deportation of ILLEGAL immigrants and legal immigrants who've been convicted of certain crimes.

Only 6 cents out of every dollar paid for a head of lettuce goes to the workers who harvested it. The drop in food prices owes largely to higher crop yields made possible through mechanization and drought and disease-resistant hybrids.

You and I are both old enough to remember when most families lived off their own earnings and did not collect food stamps and welfare for years while having more children on the dole. 87% of all households headed by illegal immigrants receive one or more forms of public assistance, usually food stamps and Medicaid for US-born children. It would be interesting if an economist could do the math and compare the modest price savings of cheaper illegal immigrant labor with higher expenditures on public assistance for their children. Cheap labor isn't really cheap when it doesn't earn enough money to feed its family without help from the government.

I am sure that the decrease of food production prices since my parents days is mainly due to using machines instead of human labor and to fertilizers and better pest prevention methods. Labor is I think just a small fraction of the price. Mass production is also an important factor.

If you go to a supermarket and look at where your produce comes from you will find that you can get apples from New Zealand and Kale from China about as cheap than some local produce.

Your food prices are going to be much more affected by fluctuation in gas prices. And also draughts and increased food consumption globally due to overpopulation.

I don't have pity on these illegals. If they were to get amnesty they would refuse to work for $3 an hour and expect to get paid what an American does. This particular article does not really point that out.

They do, however mention that Illegal Jessica and her brothers are in college hoping for better jobs. Yet, how would they when the only kind of SS# they can obtain is to fake one and think they can take a job from Americans. They go to college to get better paying jobs. The states who allow this are rewarding illegals an education while they will graduate and steal an ID if they need to, in order to actually get those good jobs.

It's a dangling carrot as bait for the most undeserving people.

If food prices go up, so be it. Get rid of the incentives for them to come.

The wife and I would have to cut back from eating 6 to 8 heads of lettuce a day to maybe only 1 a week, yes would be tough at first.

Demand dictates the price of goods and services. If there is no demand the price goes down. An interesting link for you.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/06/worl...

Without a doubt, food prices would go UP.

Why? Because the consumer items would reflect the same expenses as a citizen who has benefits, pays SS, FICA, etc.

With the additional costs to the employer, the costs would be passed on to the consumer.

what would happen if we re-instituted slavery?

what is the cost of invalidating the Law?

I guess we'd have to starve, like the Canadians.

probably go up?