Courts have ruled that you can't make welfare recipients work as a condition for collecting payments.

Some unemployed people are starting to work farm labor, but only those who are accustomed to physical labor and low wages. You're not going to see unemployed degreed professionals harvesting squash. Jeez, you can't even get them to move to where jobs are available - you want them to bend over and pick vegetables!?!?

If we sealed the border and arrested every illegal alien, we'd have a massive food shortage in this country. We need millions of them every year, but we need to manage their presence as we used to do forty years ago.