[SR2Z]

It hasn't happened because no President has been stupid enough to deport them en-masse. Even the current guy has admitted that he won't focus on agriculture workers because it would be bad for business.

Nobody is hiring illegal workers to save 10¢. They are getting paid significantly less than minimum wage.

[Symbiote]

> It hasn't happened because no President has been stupid enough to deport them en-masse.

Britain enters the room...

Short-term farm labourers like fruit pickers weren't deported as such after Brexit (I think), and they were earning roughly double the minimum wage, but the jobs were seasonal so many workers spent the winter in their home countries.

After Brexit:

> A shortage of farm workers created by Brexit led to 8,000 tonnes of berries going unpicked last year.

The EU citizens have been replaced by labourers (with the appropriate visas etc) from Asia, but the wages have gone up and the costs of travel.

(I don't know how this affected fruit/vegetable prices. There were other causes of inflation at the same time.)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/14/why-uk-farms... (NB 2022.)

[FirmwareBurner]

>They are getting paid significantly less than minimum wage.

Which is bad for everyone except business owners who vacuum up all the profits from exploiting below minimum wage labor, and then socialize the cost of taxless under the table work of illegals to the state and by extension to the taxpayer.