[skeeter]

If these immigrant workers are willing to do this work, more power to them ... and if they are performing their services at low,low pay, that is a form of taxation in itself, and we all benefit!

I see no evidence that immigration, illegal or otherwise, has any effect whatsoever on the price of the service they are rendering.

For example, the quotes I received for landscaping my front yard, the type of job permeated with illegals in these parts, 'bout knocked my socks off.

I'd like to see the evidence that excessive immigration - or for that manner, outsourcing, has any effect at all on the normal cost curve of the industries they're involved in.

[skeeter]

Correction, I meant to assert immigration has no effect on price curves. They certainly have an effect on the cost curves.

[Clemenza]

For example, the quotes I received for landscaping my front yard, the type of job permeated with illegals in these parts, 'bout knocked my socks off.

And people wonder why "landscapers" (as opposed to their illegal employees) in suburban NYC can afford a $500,000 house and a place "downashore."

[ChinaThreat]

That is because the immigrants are only workers. They are employed by the contractor. He just makes a larger profit hiring immigrant workers for minimum wage or often less. If those immigrants weren't there, he would have to pay a resident an acceptable fee to do the job. Simple supply and demand sir.

[Centurion2000]

I see no evidence that immigration, illegal or otherwise, has any effect whatsoever on the price of the service they are rendering.

Try to find a white english speaking brick layer. You won't .... illegals have been running americans out of construction like you wouldn't believe.