Experts say exodus of illegal immigrants could stagger economy

?To suggest that we can do away with immigrant laborers and hire native workers to pick broccoli by paying them more money is based on the childlike view of people who have no idea of how hard it is to pick broccoli,? said Wayne Cornelius, a professor of U.S.-Mexican relations at the University of California San Diego. San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5, 2006.