"There's ample evidence to back that up.
#25 | Posted by LauraMohr"

There are no communities thriving with illegals in the US. ----, there aren't even thriving communities within their own home countries - which is why they come here illegally and drag down our economy.

As you ------- are too stupid and/or scared to post the number for lettuce:

The average lettuce picker can pick 800 pounds of lettuce per hour (machine assisted with mix of iceberg and romaine).
The average lettuce picker wage in California is $16.71/hour.
That means the labor cost for lettuce is $0.02 per pound.

The average price per pound of lettuce in the US is between $1.3-$3/pound.
That means the picker labor component as a % of the lettuce price is between 0.7% - 1.4%.

If we were to double wages to $33.42 per hour and the grocery stores and farmers passed on 100% of the labor cost to customers, the cost of lettuce would increase to $1.52 - $3.02 per pound.

So there you have it - a grand total of $0.02/lb of lettuce and we can be illegal alien free. I 100% support that.

"#23 | Posted by REDIAL"

Well, when you cannot argue with actual math or logic, you can just continue to post as you have been. BTW, I think Canada is starting to kick out the -------------- on expiring visas. First logical thing Mexico North has done in years.

"Where are the billions of Payroll taxes paid into the system?
#20 | Posted by Danforth"

The estimated $30B they contribute? That is a drop in the bucket compared to the K-12 school costs alone. California spend ~$4B on illegals medicaid last year - how much do you think the total spend was nationwide?

Illegals are a net drag on the economy and it is not even close - and this is before you take into account the societal costs such as suppressing wages for US workers and turning the public schools into failure factories.

""Yes, I am willing to pay $0.50 more for my lettuce"
You're an idiot if you think that's all it's going to cost. Stop using Republican Math.
#14 | Posted by Danforth"

I have provided the math on strawberries - show me your math on lettuce -------. Prove me wrong. How much is the cost of lettuce going to increase?

"Medical care for poor Americans is OVER."

Ever get tired of lying?

"The new BBB is going to cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid.
#14 | Posted by Danforth"

Get rid of fraud and abuse and medicaid costs go down. Stop providing care to children of illegals, and costs go down. Stop illegals from suppressing US wages and there are less poor people needing medicaid.

The only thing Americans have said goodbye to are emergency rooms in the US as the flood of illegals are bankrupted the business. A big reason why US medical care is so unaffordable for the middle class is the illegals directly using emergency services vs. standard hospital care.

Let's bring some actual math to this discuss - basically, liberal talkpoint Kryptonite:

The average strawberry picker can pick between 80-120 pounds of strawberries per hour.
The average strawberry picker wage in California is $16.71/hour.
That means the labor cost for strawberries is between $0.14 and $0.20 per pound.

The average price per pound of strawberries in the US is between $3-$4/pound.
That means the picker labor component as a % of the strawberry price is between 3.5% - 7.0%.

If we were to double wages to $33.42 per hour and the grocery stores and farmers passed on 100% of the labor cost to customers, the cost of strawberries would increase to $3.20 - $4.14 per pound.

If we cannot get Americans to pick strawberries for $33.42/hour - an annualized wage of $69,500 (assuming no overtime or weekends) - then we can start to bring in guest workers with the conditions that I mentioned above. However, if we cannot get Americans at that price, it is due to having too good of a welfare state.

"Wholly?!? Once again, you're using 100% and you're wrong. A 25% reduction could be the difference between profit and loss. A 50% reduction would almost guarantee rotting crops.
#10 | Posted by Danforth"

If the farmer had 25-50% of illegals working, again, they deserve to go bankrupt. Their use of illegal labor has distorted market prices. This impacts the farmers that do things the right way and also stunts automation. While the farmer makes profit, society losses BILLIONS. Yes, I am willing to pay $0.50 more for my lettuce if it means the public school decline stops and we can afford medical care for poor Americans.

"#7 | Posted by Danforth"

Nope - I want 100% deported. Literally every other industrialized nation on earth is able to figure this out except for the US because American workers are screwed over by big corporations and Democrats (now, they are the same thing). We can have a legal work permit program for foreign workers which denies birthright citizenship and forbids their kids from using the public schools and other public services.

"Increasing the costs will increase the price."

Labor costs go up a bit but are offset by rapidly declining energy prices. Meanwhile, rent prices decrease as 10M illegals are kicked out of the country and we save hundreds of billions on welfare, public schools, law enforcement, etc. So, prices will go DOWN.

"And deporting field workers will create shortages, causing edible produce to rot in the fields."
#5 | Posted by Danforth"

If the farmer was wholly reliant on illegals to harvest their crops, they deserve to go bankrupt. Your logic is akin to saying that we cannot arrest drug dealers because it would hurt the new car market.

"Won't stop yer bois from ICE from putting the boot to their necks...
#3 | Posted by Angrydad"

We can only hope. The faster they are gone, the faster we get American wages up and people off of welfare.

All those ------- liberals on here saying that Americans won't do those jobs are proven 100% wrong, AGAIN. Also, you can see from this raid that blaming the employer is not the solution as they are using the government programs that are designed to be easy for illegals to circumvent.

Trump is doing what needed to be done for 30 years - he closed the border and is ridding the country of the illegals that cost WAY WAY more than what they contribute in unskilled labor.

There is between 1M-4M undocumented children in the US K-12 public schools. That costs the nation between $18B and $75B in spending on their education alone - throw in the health care and law enforcement and they are a giant sinkhole in the economy.

Lastly, and my biggest reason for 100% deporting 100% of the illegals - THEY SUPPRESS WAGES. We have people out of the workforce and working poor BECAUSE OF THE ILLEGALS. Flooding the job market with millions of unskilled illegals hurts the most vulnerable Americans.

If Israel killed Khamenei, it would almost assuredly kick off a nuclear war in the region if not globally. The fact that Israel even thought this was okay just shows how delusional they have become. As it stands, I fully expect Iran to update their nuclear stance by stating a clear intention to complete a bomb (frankly, I think they already have them). As shown in the latest attack, Israel cannot stop Iranian missiles so it would simply be putting the nuke warhead on what they already have. Alternatively, Iran would be 100% justified as of now of nuking Dimona which would have the effect of a giant dirty bomb attack on the whole of Israel.

Trump is the sole source of sanity in the world now. With Jews like Zelensky and Netanyahu doing everything they can to bring on the end of humanity, it is shocking that we are even still alive now.

"IMHO no one I know is worried enough about the people involved with Epstein. If Trump was a cohort, I definitely want to know. Every one of those people should go to prison.
#60 | Posted by lfthndthrds"

They are blending the Epstein files like they blend illegal and legal immigrants.

Flying on Epstein's plane to NYC or Miami pre-arrest and pre-public knowledge of what he is doing shady at worst. Hanging with Epstein AFTER he was arrested or ANYONE on the Epstein Island visitor log is 100% a pedo.

The people voted for Mass Deportations - Trump was very open about that. Most of the protestors are illegals. A full 10% of LA County is illegals - that is over 1M illegals in that city alone. The more they protest, the more the normal people turn against them. We need to "Super Size" the effort. I want 1M gone by the end of the year through involuntary deportation and another 2-3M through self-deportation.

At the end of 2024, Biden tried to flood the market with oil by releasing the strategic oil reserve prior to the election which made the US less safe and had a slight impact in lower gas prices. Trump embraces cheap energy policies and the US and OPEC open the flood gates and drive cost decreases via increased supply - the parties are not the same.

That was the Corporate GOP - they wanted cheap labor. Those people have been kicked out of the GOP by Trump and they are now calling the shots in the DNC along with the LGBT+ crowd. That is why the Democrats are all in on Globo-Homo.

"36 | Posted by jpw"

A long-term decreasing trend since 2018? That is the best you could find? Keep that day job washing beakers -------, this is beyond you.

"Meanwhile, under his watch, prices and production are dropping because of slumping demand. Not exactly what was promised...
#32 | Posted by jpw"

What demand is slumping -------? Gasoline? Nope. Natural Gas? Nope. It is on the production side -------.

The funniest part about all the inflation fear mongering by the Dems is that when it comes to actual inflation - you do live in a different world than the rest of us. Inflation is not even across the US - it is way, way worse on the West Coast and in the Northeast. For this latest report, inflation in LA was 3%, San Diego 3.4% and NYC 3.0%. This is versus the 1.4% for South and Mountain states. And this is as it should be - you keep voting for inflationary policies and inflation hits you harder. You got what you voted for so you should be happy.

"#24 | Posted by ClownShack"

You -------- were predicting a recession just a few weeks back - you still think it is going to be a negative reading or have you finally embraced reality?

Do any of you -------- want to bet on the Q2 real GDP growth rate?

"The only reason the numbers look good is energy went down further on an extended trend.
#17 | Posted by jpw"

The biggest part of Trump's plan to bring down prices was to lower the cost of energy. He did - and prices have come down.

Just admit you were wrong and stick to washing beakers -------. This economics stuff is beyond your abilities.

"#6 | Posted by YAV"

Maybe you should move out of your -------- blue city.

Dozen eggs at Walmart in Green Bay, WI: under $3.00 (Walmart, Target, Festival).

Sounds like a 'you' problem.

Then again, I don't think you would find married downlow gay guys to bang there so there will be positives and negatives for you.

"#3 | Posted by Zed"

Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this... and TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!