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So how do candidates get by with promising tougher border controls, if that would end up cutting off the supply of cheap workers that these other businesses rely on?

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Perhaps they promise it and then don't do it?

Or make a lot of talk about a big physical, obvious and newsworthy solution like “the wall”.

If you solve a problem you can't campaign on it in the next election, especially if that solution causes a bunch of other problems.

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