So Pancho gets his green card and shows up to work at the contractor where he has been laying brick for 5 years for $8 and hour. He tells his boss,Jose, that he now is legal and wants $12 and hour and to get bene’s. Jose tells him to get lost because he has a new guy coming from TJ who will work for $8.
Or if he's going to have to pay $12 he'll replace Jose with an Anglo who has better language skills and lives in the boss's neighborhood.