"Even if we wanted to compete with your $10/day illegals"
BS!
The ones working construction are making $18-20/hr. and the do nothing curbside illegls won't work for less than $8/hr plus transportation and free lunch.
I am glad to see you say that because anyone who believes the illegals are earning a minimum wage is wrong. In Santa Barbara when someone hires a person from the wall they can expect to pay $10/hr. for mindless labor.
I should add that whatever is paid to those people IS NOT taxed. The people like Barbara Boxer, et al, who claim the illegals add to our society are not telling the truth. They live in garages or shacks with many other people. They pay a minimum for housing and send most of their earnings back to Mexico. Plus they pay no tax but have to be cared for by our medical system if they become ill. It is a no win situation.
Note that I was careful to write "your" $10/day illegals back there. If your BS detector is making noise, tell it to the source.
Regardless of the wages, the point remains the same. The b*st*rd who hires the illegals is doing so because he figures to get more bang for his buck and it's worth the risk. If we don't want him hiring illegals, we need to convince him he figured wrong.