America faces a worsening shortage of unskilled labor in the very industries that keep the country functioning: agriculture, construction, food processing, hospitality, and elder care. Yet the United States continues to spend between $25,000 and $40,000 per person to locate, apprehend, detain, process, feed, house, and ultimately remove many of the same workers filling those jobs. The result is predictable: fewer available workers, higher consumer prices, and deeper strain on essential services.

This is not an immigration strategy. It is an extraordinarily expensive way to make a labor shortage worse.

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A modern, cost-neutral solution exists. Instead of spending taxpayer dollars on a removal process that takes months and solves nothing, the government can red

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