Originally posted by: ADigitalMan

I don't buy the argument that nobody else wants the jobs they take. Tell that to the citizen who wants a job and can't find one.

Yeah, that argument is just an easy way to cop out. Back during my years working in construction I have known illegal immigrants to have given lower bids on certian jobs than ligitimate citizens and as a result gotten the job. This is a perfect example of illegals getting jobs that would have otherwise gone to ligitmate citizens or even legal immigrants. There may be some pretty low jobs, but there are people for them someplace. Even if there aren't people that will do them other than illegal immigrants, do we really want something illegal to be the easy answer to the problem? If there are jobs that are so unpleasant nobody wants to do them, perhaps those jobs shouldn't exist. Also what makes it so certian that they wont reallize their pithy, unpleasant little job sucks a lot more than it has to and move on to become a painter with the ability to give lower bids on jobs than somebody who has a lot more expenses to worry about.

That whole nobody else wants the jobs they take is a bunch of bull, and just another way of saying, "Hey, its not my problem and I am not going to let it be my problem."

One thing that might help would be if we had more "sweat shops" where they could work in Mexico and earn a decent living ligitimately. A lot of people gasp at the word "sweat shop" yet we say we need them to move to America in order that they can do our unpleasant jobs that we think we are too good for. It would also be a good way to help out our neighbor's economy while slowing down the vast quantities of money we are throwing into the Chinese economy.