I'm glad you gave that naive little twit an education in basic reality and economics.
I manned a jackhammer building the Silver Spring Metro station one summer, late 70's. It helped to put me through college, doing that "job Americans don't want."
Another summer, and another "job Americans don't want", which was setting-up and then removing the concrete forms used to build residential home foundations.
During college semesters, I had yet another "job Americans don't want" with an office moving company in DC. We'd head downtown at 7PM to some federal agency or another, and relocate the entire agency to another office building somewhere else (usually just a few blocks away). Speed with of the essence, and we'd usually finish exhausted between 1am and 3am.
Yep, it's a good thing there are Mexicans to take "the jobs Americans don't want."
By the way, there was some arrogant "Latino advocate" being interviewed on a news show recently, and bragging that "Mexicans are rebuilding New Orleans, not Americans."
No wonder Mary Landrieu voted NO to cloture eaelier today.
I worked with quite a few "born in a America" dudes...and some guy's born south of the border too. Circa 1980...
The pay was good....it was manual labor but we were glad to have the work.