Robots and Remigration: Even Your Toilets will be Cleaned by a Machine

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The case for mass immigration—such that it ever really existed—is finally about to meet its maker and be buried in the shifting sands of history. Conservatives the likes of George Bush and Co. will no longer be able to smugly claim there are jobs “Americans just won’t do” because those jobs will soon be done by robots with alphanumeric designations and corporate logos plastered to their sides. All of the most physically intensive, least well-paid forms of “menial” labor will soon either be entirely replaced by robots and tech or (in most cases) massively augmented by them. Even the bathrooms and toilets in your office building, children’s schools, and hospitals will soon be cleaned by robots.

Let’s take a look at something closer to home: grounds-keeping. Currently 45% of landscapers and groundskeepers are of Hispanic extraction, and a massive proportion are immigrants. So many of these notoriously low-wage landscaping workers are immigrants that the National Association of Landscape Professionals posted this article on their website: “How to Prepare Your Landscape Company for Immigration Enforcement,” published in February of 2025.

These jobs are some of the most recent to come under “threat” from automation as small lawn mowing robots are now being rolled out onto the market en masse. For many Americans the range of available models (which go from between $500 and $5000 on average) is quite affordable, especially when one considers that they are electric and many are self-emptying and even self-cleaning. You then have the larger scale automated lawn mowers being rolled out by John Deere and the like.

Huge zero-turn machines can now mow anything from a suburban lawn to huge golf courses and corporate office parks. There are even robots being debuted that can trim, edge, and leaf-blow lawns. Smaller robots are capable of crawling through the dirt of a garden, recognizing and killing weeds as they go.

Soon, landscaping crews are going to shrink from three to five men on average to one man, a tablet, and a trailer full of robots. The cheap immigrant labor class, imported for the political elite and short-sighted businesses that donate to political campaigns will soon be made irrelevant by these developments.

Similar developments to the yard robots are also happening with other forms of homecare. Autonomous, self-charge, self-cleaning, electric, and increasingly affordable snow blowing robots are now coming to market. Many, such as the one linked above, have other attachments such as a snow blade for plowing driveways and blowers for leaves and the like. And at this point everyone knows about the many, many cheap robots that can be purchased to vacuum and mop floors autonomously.

These “household” robot prototypes are now expanding into the realm of professional cleaning of spaces such as schools and office buildings—those spaces that “Americans just won’t clean!” Well, it turns out there are now robots for janitorial duties as well. This robot, covered by Interesting Engineering in 2023, is capable of navigating whole office complexes, including autonomous uses of elevators, to go about cleaning bathrooms including toilets, sinks, wastepaper, and even mopping floors with its arm.

Then of course there is the massive world of agriculture, which has too many autonomous robots, human assisted systems, and other AI powered machines to cover in detail. (Some of them are reviewed here.)

It is sufficient to say that robots now exist to pick most vegetables, kill most weeds, harvest most plants, process most produce, package, label, planet seeds, spray crops and just about anything else you can imagine. More of these machines are released every year. And every year it becomes more clear that the massive, mostly immigrant, agricultural workforce in the United States and Europe is becoming less relevant.

These workforces only remain in place as a result of inertia, and because these autonomous machines are (currently) too expensive for most non-mega farm operations to adopt. However, this can be changed via proactive, pro-farmer policy changes. In fact all of these increasingly automated jobs should be prompted to switch over fully (or as much as possible) to automation through the use of public policy.

Currently the United States is spending about $150 billion to host 18-20 million illegal aliens (it is probably more, but we like to use estimates from reputable organizations). A part of these funds should be taken to deporting every last illegal alien, but then we must help our farmers catch up to the modern era and encourage more young men to take up farming as it becomes more high-tech. Creating a program of $20 billion in grants (to go to small and medium sized farms) for a period of 8 years would effectively automate our entire agricultural industry and massively boost yields and lower costs. And this is in just one sector. Tax incentives and grants for young people to start businesses that rely upon robotic rather than cheap labor would see most immigrant heavy low wage industries rapidly transformed into much less labor intensive and much younger—more American—industries. (See our full agricultural policy recommendations here.)

As low wage immigrants and their descendants find themselves lacking in skills and knowledge for a modern Western economy, we will encourage them to take advantage of voluntary remigration programs—paying these populations a stipend to return to their homelands or similar countries where they will be able to more readily contribute to a developing economy rather than an already-developed one. Imagine the case of an immigrant Salvadoran construction worker, a bricklayer who was naturalized some years ago: His task is replaced by one of the new robots being developed to assist in construction and is unable to compete with the intelligent young Americans who are trained as operators through a cooperative vocational school and robotics company workforce program. His choices are few: he can either take an even lower wage job that cannot sustain his family or he can go on the welfare system and become a burden to the American taxpayer. Neither of these outcomes are ideal for the man and his family nor for the American taxpayer who is already overburdened.

The best option is the third option, Remigration. Once the bricklayer has lost his job and is “automated out” of the economy, the American Remigration Act would allow him to take a $75,000 payment and return to his native El Salvador with his children. This is equivalent to 15 years of income in El Salvador and is enough money to buy a two-bedroom home in the country and still have 5 years’ worth of income in the bank. Moreover, his wife would also be eligible for such a payment. The couple would have decades worth of savings, a new home, and plenty of capital to invest in their community all while saving Americans many hundreds of thousands of dollars (roughly $645,000) that would have otherwise been spent on this family had they remained in America for the entirety of their lives.

Robotics and technology are about to wipe away much of the low-wage economy and with it, much of the job market for the masses of post-1965 immigrants that were drawn to America against the will of the American people. We will need policy solutions before this situation becomes a social calamity amidst an otherwise remarkable technological leap forward.