His circumstances are what they are. If this is the only opportunity he can find at present, he should take it. The consequences of being employed off the books aren’t his unless he chooses to remain so himself.
The Obama Administration has been waging war on the few high paying blue collar jobs that are left.
And now it wants to kill the Keystone XL pipeline project that would create thousands of high paying jobs.
In its hostility to putting people into the workforce, it has a clear record.