[pm321]

"For one, no labor could be hired to perform many farm duties, and certainly not for the amount that farms pay foreign temp workers."

The opportunity is definitely there to roboticize the backbreaking work those faceless poorly dressed "peasants" are subject to under the watchful gaze of new bossman from investor capitalized Communist Party China. Isreali robotics firms have demo proofs of concepts years ago. Even Elon Musk has posted YouTube clips of potato size sorting machine.

[tartoran]

If this was feasible it would have happened already. I don’t think we’re there yet. And how many years are we not to have veggies, fruits any other items that come directly from the labor of immigrants? And Americans won’t do this type of work, even if paid better I think

[burfog]

That sounds a lot like picking cotton. If the immigrants don't become Americans (who supposedly "won't do this type of work") then what are they? It sounds an awful lot like keeping slaves. They even arrive crammed in the holds of ships, unable to speak the local language.

Americans will do the work. They won't if an excess of unskilled labor drives down the wages, but that doesn't have to happen. We don't need to keep an underclass.