Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame is pointing this out. There are millions of skilled trade positions that are unfilled, which illegals without skills can’t do and college graduates don’t know how to do.
And all these people who flunked out of college should have been trained to do, while the employers often offer to pay for the training to get new people into them, from diesel mechanic to CNC machine programmer. Semiconductor manufacturing, for example, is a one year training program.
Guys in the trades have told me that braceros are hired for jobs for which they have no training or experience; they learn (somewhat) on the job and the only Americans wanted by the companies are those that will train & supervise them.
I like Mike Rowe’s show but the reality is nobody is going to invest time & money if somebody will be trafficked here to do the jobs instead. Our young people learn this quickly, so our colleges recruit overseas instead...