What about the labor of LEGAL immigrants? Mexicans are welcome to come here. Just as long as they have papers.
Now some will say, but we need illegals to sustain the economy, migrant farmers and what have you. The truth is, while we may have less expensive food prices because of illegals we have much higher taxes paying for their healthcare ect. Illegals do not pay taxes.
Mexicans are not the only immigrant group. We often forget that. I recently met a girl from Eastern Europe who immigrated here. My friend's parents are immigrants from Greece. Immigrants do not only come from Mexico.
Only a very few who are paid in cash, usually day laborers, do not pay income taxes. But their employers still pay income tax on the profits they make.
Plus illegals pay sales tax on everything they buy. Their landlord pays property taxes on the house they live in. They person who drives them to work pays gas taxes.
But most importantly, people who work contribute to our economic prosperity. If we didn't have enough employees, companies would have to move over seas or close down. Then all of their employees would suffer, along with the companies that supply them the raw products, and the local governments which are dependent upon the taxes the companies pay.
If we didn't need immigrant laborers they wouldn't be here.
Actually I would say that a lot of illegals pay taxes. Many of their employers don't ask if they are here legally but will use the fake documentation to pay their social security and income taxes.