Lets sum this up.
Some unskilled folks are willing to work for $15 to $17 an hour, some aren't.
Some semi-skilled laborers are willing to work for $1500 per week, some aren't.
The ones who are willing to work on these terms generally aren't entitled to welfare benefits and can speak Spanish.
Didn't need the snideness, especially since it obscured your message. Are you trying to justify the use of illegals if they truly are the only ones willing to do work Americans are supposedly unwilling to do? I have friends with Masters Degrees willing to do anything for $17 an hour, so that can't be right.
I don't know what you've ben hearing, but illegals have been seen cleaning out weeks-old decayed shrimp remains and defecated carpeting without any protective gear - their offtime spent in areas lacking running water to sanitize with. Our government is suspending civilization and treating a desperate wage pool as expendable tools for expedience much like the former Soviet Union utilized Jews and other minorities.
We're supposed to be better than that. Cutting the politically favored out of the rebuilding effort might reestablish the rules of civilization.
Seriously, we need a far better model than what's happening there. This has taught me to stock up for possible disaster. Ammunition, water, food, ammunition, clothing, medicines, ammunition...