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"The result would be a new equilibrium, with blue-collar workers making somewhat better money, but each one of those workers being more productive. ."

RIGHT, they were jobs with wages that ADULT Americans could not survive on, that our kids used to have for spare money.

Now days, the jobs are no longer being confined to that criteria, they are the jobs that American Citizens need to pay morgages, car payments, send kids to college, etc. The illegal mexicans want those jobs. At the better wages. Thoes jobs need to go to AMERICAN CITIZENS.

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... [jobs] that our kids used to have for spare money.

A lot of those jobs that ''our kids used to have for spare money'' are not available to anyone under 18 anymore. Anyone under 18 isn't getting a job running a lawnmower, a hedge trimmer, a snowblower. He's not running a skilsaw or working on a roofing crew. There are damned few jobs available to a 16 or 17 year old. A good part of the labor market for illegal immigrants has been created as a result of workplace safety legislation that bars workers under the age of 18 from holding a lot of jobs that they used to hold.