There are plenty of jobs for high school kids and you know it.
The real problem today is that parents don't want Johnny to work in a dirty fast food place or Johnny is addicted to the X-box.
Also labor laws retsrict the kinds of jobs and the hours of jobs for the kids under 18. Maybe you should look into that before going knee jerk.
Maybe you should wake up to some facts Dane. Always pimping for the ILLEGALS aren't you? A post on FR said it well yesterday, it went something like this: If you are against strong legislation and enforcement that deports ILLEGALS, jails employers who hire them and controling the border, then you are A:)An ILLEGAL B:)A relative of an ILLEGAL C:) A business owner who benefits from hiring ILLEGALs or D:) You are an idiot. I thought this covered it rather well. Which category do you fall inot?
My husband worked a farm in high school. Laying irrigation pipe,weeding crops, whatever work there was. That job is not available to my teen age son because of illegal Mexicans at that farm now. That farmer sold out to cheap labor. We won't buy his produce.
Don't tell me teens won't work, teens do work when jobs are available.
You seem to forget that because of so many illegals in this country the lines for those waiting for a visa to come legally to the US have slowed to a crawl. For example, a vietnamese person who applies for a visa to come to the US has less than a 5% chance of being accepted because of the heavy burden of illegal mexicans already in the USA.
What's your point?
All you are saying is that one illegal immigrant adult is taking away a job from MULTIPLE high school kids.