Attention, hardware shoppers! Any questions you may have about products in the Lowe’s store can now be answered by the spiffy new retail robot in multiple languages, because LoweBot is linguistically diverse!

Lowe’s likes how the machine can function for 24/7 with no lunch breaks or paychecks required. Plus, the LoweBot also performs inventory tracking as it cruises around the aisles — no need to hire a human for that task either.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics put the number of retail sales workers in 2014 at 4,859,600. Many of those jobs are threatened by retail robots — not immediately, but as the price of the bots go down, more businesses will add them to save labor costs.

The profound changes in the workplace due to automation are likely to undermine the basic economic cycle of humans getting paid for performing work and purchasing manufactured goods in the stores using their wages. How is the economy supposed to work without shoppers?

In light of the automated future, it makes no sense for the government to continue importing millions of foreign workers to do jobs that are disappearing. Expert predictions are sobering: In 2013, an Oxford University study (“The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?”) was published that concluded nearly half of US employment is at risk of being replaced by smart machines. The respected Gartner tech consultants predicted in 2014 that one-third of jobs will be taken by smart machines and software by 2025.

In short, automation makes immigration obsolete. Let’s just stop, for a less chaotic future.