You can bet your last dollar that if throngs of foreign persons were to take the jobs of politicians by working for a 1/3 of the wage the border would be a fortress. My building trades are decimated and in my area mexicans come out of the woodwork and literally swarm on new homes and the like. Try dealing with private homeowners price wise when they shop illegal outfits and people that can always go back to their homeland after fleecing our republic. But why would a cushy state/fed agency jeopardize their guarenteed paycheck by solving the problem they were created for?...23-32 million state / federal employees ...THAT is the biggest problem.