"...2 decades of booming immigration from Mexico and our economy has done nothing but go straight up..."
That's because of growth in the prison industry.
...and restaurant industry, and construction industry, and golf course industry, and hotel industry, and landscaping industry, and janitorial services industry, and dozens of other industries that are done far more inexpensively now than 20 years ago causing your salary to go exponentially farther than it used to...