I have no doubt that they are all here legally. My point was to the fact that they are here because American young folks CAN NOT BE FOUND who will do the kind of work they are doing. Some say that if these places paid a living wage, they would have plenty of help. For crying out loud, these are pretty much temporary summertime jobs that every college kid and many high school kids used to be happy to get not so many years ago. What are those kids doing now? That’s what I’d like to know. Are they so rich they don’t need to lower themselves to this kind of work? Have they jumped right over entry level to middle management? Or maybe in the past 35 years, we aborted all of our people who might be doing that work?
There’s going to come a day of reckoning in the not-too-distant future and it ain’t gonna be pretty. Some people are going to get a wake up call that they will not be able to answer.
In the Houston area a young man can't get a job in construction or mowing lawns, because the illegals fill those spots at a much lower rate with no insurance and no taxes paid to the government. There are still some areas where kids can work - the local fast food joints in my neighborhood have the local kids - black, white, hispanic, asian - nice kids - but jobs are being filled by illegals because they don't have to stick to the laws and tax codes for them.
Perhaps in your area American kids can't be found - but that is not what we are seeing in my area. Greedy American small business owners are hiring illegals instead of American kids.