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...
So it's snide when I say "Let's sum this up" but not when you say it?
I've done a little bit of traveling in parts of rural Mexico where some of these folks come from. They are routinely exposed to chemicals which are banned in the US, they drink water that would likely make you are me very ill, and the sanitary facilites in New Orleans are not far removed from those experienced a generation ago by white, black and brown migrant workers. And as for protective gear, few workers in any industry had the advantage of that before OSHA came along.