You hit the nail on the head!! I've always been of the opinion that you can get any type of work done whether it be nursing, I.T. or cutting grass if you pay people enough to do it so that they can live. Look at most fast food places, they're always crying that they depend on the labor of illegal immigrants because americans are too lazy to do the work, or feel that it's beneath them. Then you compare what they're willing to pay now vs what they paid in 1980, and it's minimum wage or thereabouts. The only way anyone can afford to work in that kind of environment is if they live 20 people to a house. Sorry but americans shouldn't be forced to live that way.
If you cut off the flow of cheap labor, the work would still get done, but either the wages would rise or productivity would rise so you have 1 $20.00/hr worker doing the work of four $5.00 /hr workers. This would happen by pure economics, no government forcing a rise in wages.
We live in a nation where CEO's who run companies into the ground work in the easiest working conditions are compensated in the millions for what can only be described a gross incompetence. this is the same nation where those who are willing to deliver honest value for the dollar are unpaid and not able to meet their obligations due to government policy that is against our nation's priciples.