A lot of the illegals are bypassing the agriculture and day-labor jobs in favor of more lucrative construction and jobs done for homeowners.
So who's going to fill those other jobs? Why, more illegals of course.
Craig and the GOP are out to lunch on immigration and deserve to get the Bronx cheers.
Exactly.
Until the flow of fresh illegals is stopped, there will always be somebody that can afford to work cheaper than somebody paying taxes and that an employer can skip benefits, etc. Once any of the current illegals become in any way "legal" they will also become more expensive to the employer -- probably with the result that they end up unemployed and added to the welfare rolls.
The whole idea of legalizing any of these people and them still filling the low-wage niche is just nonsense. Can't happen. Instead, they'll just become eligible for all the welfare-state goodies and vote Dem. Republican politicians supporting such amnesty or increased immigration plans are just signing their own political death warrants.