Good points, but a relative of mine who employees Kalifornians told me, even with all you stated, the Mexicans are still harder working then the average young Kalifornian native.
I am a contractor and know the cliche, but people forget that they have to go through a lot of illegals to find a good worker, and they forget that they are comparing an adult fugitive, a peasant from a backwards culture who is willing to do unpleasant repetitive, boring work for low pay, than a young American who is on a different path in life and has long term goals and is just looking for some temporary money.
If I were building a nation or a business empire, I would still prefer to choose my pilgrims from the average California natives, than from the illegal laborers.
As someone who has seen it, I really regret how Mexicans destroyed workmanship, standards, and quality in the trades and construction industry.
It is a real education to cut into and have to remove and see in detail and layers, the quality and enduring construction and remodeling work done 50 and 60 years ago, and compare it with the unskilled handyman/laborer level stuff we see from the last 20 and 30 years, America is becoming a grubby, poorly built and poorly maintained nation.
Visit Mexico and look around, construction, yards, landscaping, walls, everything looks like it does in Mexico because they don’t know how to do anything well, and they have never cared to learn, or to do it if you tried to show them how.
Some nation’s populations are known for quality and craftsmanship, attention to detail, and pride in workmanship, Mexico has never been one of those.
I’ve seen some hard working Mexicans and some lazy ones....some lazy Russkies and some hard working ones....there’s lazy ones among all of us...