What will food and services cost when we deport all Mexican workers?

Question

No one is showing the average american the data that shows just how much food and service prices will rise as a result of exporting all Mexican workers. Data is showing congress that people in large cities will go into civil war because of shortages of food. Many of the extremely wealthy people in this country have been informed to buy land in extreme Southern United States where they will be able to grow their own food and secure older southern workers who have experience in producing food to survive. This confidential document shows that the United States if deporting workers that we would be dependent on foreign countries for food just as we are for oil. The populations that will be affected the most are the urban areas and poor and minorites. This is the reason that many of the most powerful people in american are buying rural farms very quitely in the Southeast United States. Within 5 years major food shortages will exist in meat and vegetables.

Answer 1

Give it a break--the facts below

I will speak for many farmers-the 80% who don't want illegals here. Your food is covered-most farmers do not support the big corp farms who use migrant workers.

less than 10 percent by Mexico (10%pickers-less10% other farm related)--the other 90% of the farms say your welcome. We don't need you -you need us. Be nice



"Phillip Martin, an economist at the University of California, Davis, has demolished the argument that a crackdown on illegals would ruin it, or be a hardship to consumers. Most farming — livestock, grains, etc. — doesn't heavily rely on hired workers. Only about 20 percent of the farm sector does, chiefly those areas involving fresh fruit and vegetables.

The average "consumer unit" in the U.S. spends $7 a week on fresh fruit and vegetables, less than is spent on alcohol, according to Martin. On a $1 head of lettuce, the farm worker gets about 6 or 7 cents, roughly 1/15th of the retail price. Even a big run-up in the cost of labor can't hit the consumer very hard.

Martin recalls that the end of the bracero guest-worker program in the mid-1960s caused a one-year 40 percent wage increase for the United Farm Workers Union. A similar wage increase for legal farm workers today would work out to about a 10-dollar-a-year increase in the average family's bill for fruit and vegetables. Another thing happened with the end of the bracero program: The processed-tomato industry, which was heavily dependent on guest workers and was supposed to be devastated by their absence, learned how to mechanize and became more productive."


If every illegal alien here today currently left America, the immediate economic impact would be insignificant and over the long haul, the impact would likely be negligible.

Got it!

Employment-the same-thing-not much of an impact
do your research here. We manage well before. Quit looking for excuse like the big corps do.

We will have some shortages--but because of drought and other things------I know corps will say different---get informed. Stop the spread of lies.

Answer 2

First of all it's not about deporting all Mexican workers. When will people get that through their heads? Secondly, so much of the food we eat in the US is imported, and a lot of the food we produce is exported. Sure, we grow a lot of crops that are consumed in the US but still, if you factor out the burden on US citizens by keeping illegal immigrants here, it would offset what little increase there might be in food prices. What "data" are you referring to? I suspect that what you mean is "opinion". This is another one of those issues where someone makes some unsupported statements and non-thinking people take it as gospel.
Here's a quote worth reading:
"Illegal immigration harms the American workforce.
According to a study in 1996 of the costs of illegal immigration by Rice Univ. economist, Dr. Donald Huddle, illegal aliens were displacing roughly 730,000 American workers every year, at a cost of about $4.3 billion a year, and the supply of cheap labor depresses the wages and working conditions of the working poor. The approximate doubling of the illegal alien population since the time of that estimate means that the number of jobs lost to American workers and the costs of displacement would also likely have more than doubled."

Answer 3

Illegal immigration causes many problems that's for sure. That is an indisputable fact. Given your estimate of 20 million illegals let's proceed from there. Let's say even 1/3 of them are holding jobs. That's almost 7 million people in the workforce. Contributing to the tax base etc. That would leave 7 million job vacancies. Would our nation be able to handle that many leaving the workforce? Probably not. Would Americans step into these jobs for the pay offered? Probably not. Companies bottom line is profit. Would they raise wages to get Americans to work these jobs? Probably not. More companies would begin to outsource. Thus leaving many Americans out of jobs that now hold jobs. Our entire country would collapse and the Great Depression would look like a cakewalk. As I've said illegal immigration is wrong and needs to stop. But we also need to be realistic on deporting as you say 20 million people. Believe me...It's not going to happen for various reasons. So we must move forward and think of realistic ways to deal with the situation at hand and also insure the illegal situation is stemmed in the future. Better border security and visa systems need to be taken care of first and foremost so the situation doesn't progressively get worse. Once the flow is stopped we can then work on what to do with those already here.

Answer 4

We have been feeding ourselves and the world for years.
We have the technology we just need the attitude to do the things we use to do. You are worried about food costs and I am worried about what it costs in tax dollars to provide illegals with all the services they consume while sending the US dollars they earn back to Mexico.
Did you ever hear of a victory garden. If you are worried about a food shortage why don't you start your own garden to supplement your food source?
I live in NJ and we are known as the garden state.
Gee whiz can you imagine an American working on a farm or in a garden. When did farming become degrading?
It's a wonder we got to be the greatest country in the history of the planet.
What are we going to do without Mexican workers?
OUR GREAT GRAND PARENTS, THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY HAD IT TOUGH, WOULD BE ASHAMED OF THE THINGS THAT ARE DISCUSSED HERE!

Answer 5

Don't believe any thing you read and only half of what you see.Its all smoke and mirrors perpetuated by the pro illegal supports to further their own agenda.Any increase in the price of goods would be nullified by the increase in wages paid to legal American workers.Its a scare tactic used by business that use low paid illegal workers that they don't have to report on their taxes and don't have to provide benefits to such as health,Workman's comp,or follow any safety rules or regulations.There will be no food shortage its simply death and doom BS Look at the real world,we will be here and healthy and prosperous in 5 /10 /100 years barring a war that destroys us all.Hows that for gloom and doom?
This nations economy doesn't rise or fall on the backs of illegal aliens.With or hopefully with out them(due to securing our borders and then deportation) this nation will still be America home of the happy and free (with all the food we need)....
We do have our own greenhouse and we grow 80% of what we need and have plenty left to can or freeze and still share with others.

Answer 6

Without ILLEGAL ALIENS,
the price of agricultural products
and other goods and services will NOT soar.

The definitive study on this subject
is the University of Iowa's Study
"How Much Is That Tomato?"
The study concludes that
'since labor is such a small component
of the end-price of agricultural products
(which includes price to the growers, transportation costs,
processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.),
using minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens
would increase prices of agricultural products
by approximately 3 percent in the summer
and 4 percent in the winter ...

hardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce,
$25 hamburgers,
And $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms
like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims.

Answer 7

Interesting, not the question for that is the biggest load I have ever heard of. Where do you get this stuff? Oh I see, you are a ghost writer for late night TV and you are trying to see how many laughs you get. I think Jay would love this...send it in!!!

Interesting in that you have singled out "Mexican worker" and, thus far, not one pro-illegal has jumped in to call you a racist.

Answer 8

Oh bullcrap. The country's not so fragile that not having illegal aliens is going to cause anything like that. It'd really help Mexico, though, to get their hard-working citizens back...they really need the help...their new president's talking about Doing The Right Thing, building schools and so forth....step in the right direction, there...

Answer 9

you need to also add data of what they cost the average middle class citizen in lost revenues misspent medical aid misspent welfare their schooling and free college the cost of all of that is tremendous compared to the small amount the price may rise
so the food industry makes a lower profit that is OK

Answer 10

wooooooh, did you also see some confidential documents showing that if we don't keep using those illiterate and illegal cleaning women to clean our houses, and those illegal car washing workers to wash our cars, the mexican smuggling /drug cartels will make sure that your house will be invaded /blown off and your car will be planted with explosives, did you see that ????
oh, by the way, we don't "export" those mexican workers, we "deport" them

FOR YOUR INFORMATION, UNLIKE MEXICO OR ANY OF THE CORRUPTED, BACKWARD LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, INTIMIDATION AND THREATS DON'T WORK!!!!!!

YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR FELLOW PRO-ILLEGAL PALS WHO HAVE BEEN POSTING MORONIC QUESTIONS LIKE THIS ONE MUST THINK ALL AMERICANS ARE AS DUMB AS YOU ARE.
please, get a grip of yourself already