[tvdog12345]

Many illegal immigrants are working for standard American wages. Employers are just hiring them instead of Americans.

[Clemenza]

I know folks in the domestic and restaurant businesses. There are illegal cooks and housekeepers pulling down $60-70K a year, largely under the table. These may be a few isolated cases (and this is in NYC and North Jersey), but I can verify at least four cases.

The fact is, in NYC, the project dwellers are unemployable and the "artistes" don't want to work a cooks hours. Doesn't change the fact that the illegals should have been deported eons ago, which makes it all the more interesting that many are leaving NYC and NJ to go back to Ecuador/Mexico/Brazil, etc. because restaurants aint opening like they used to two years ago.