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Mainstream media outlets are now raising questions about how Trump's deportation plans might hurt the restaurant industry, but should we really be worried? The reality is, American industries can, and will, survive without illegal alien labor.
William Gheen, President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), thinks American industries will be just fine. He said, "America got all of the cabbages picked, all streets swept, and all of the hamburgers cooked before there were 20-30 million illegals brought into this country."
According to Gheen, these illegal aliens should never have been able to get these jobs in the first place. He said, "It's against the law to hire illegal immigrants; it's against the law to be an illegal immigrant. And we need to start applying these laws across the board."
Gheen warned that there will be some adjustments made, and likely some growing pains, likening illegal immigration to a drug. Detoxing from it will mean some withdrawal symptoms. But that doesn't mean your favorite restaurants will all close down.
He says America will still have plenty of workers to avoid labor shortages because, "We have plenty of Americans, and plenty of legal immigrants, and a legal immigration system that already admits more than every other nation on the planet combined; there's not going to be any shortages."
Gheen also says that the long-term economic effects of Trump's mass deportation policies will mean deflation in both the housing and the vehicle markets.