[hanamizu]

Just got back from a visit to my mother in north San Diego County. As near as I can tell, no one does his own yard work—it is all done by people who speak little, if any English. Nice and polite and definitely hard-working, but I’ll bet the majority are not in the country legally. Same is true for all of the little fix-it jobs that are being done.

Here in Southeast Missouri, lawn service guys are all American—often semi retired. They usually hire older teenagers (probably above 18 to avoid liability problems) both black and white to do the mowing, edging etc.

The jobs being done by Mexicans in San Diego could be first or summer jobs for American kids, but those jobs aren’t open to them there.

[DaveA37]

“The number of illegal immigrants in the United States totaled 11.3 million in 2014,”..........

Exactly how does the gubmint know that number? My guess is there are a hell of a lot more than 11.3 million. The illegals come and go as they please without “punching the clock” or signing in so how the hell do we know when and where they are entering?

[ABN 505]

You are correct. Summer lawn jobs used to go too Americans both College and high school kids. Now all those jobs are taken by illegal migrants, plus they are driving landscaping trucks without licenses or insurance..