The only reason they do menial jobs is because they are being exploited by the people who hire them - their employers are taking advantage of their position of powerlessness and vulnerability stemming from their fear of discovery, making them incapable of negotiating meaningfully for better jobs or better pay.
It always sticks in my craw when politicians publically trot out this canard, it just emphasizes how the labor exploitation of illegal immigrants has become so common and so universally ignored by law enforcement that it's not even shameful anymore, that our own state's government is willfully and actively abetting it.
....for $5.00 per hour.
Labor is a supply and demand issue. If you put up a sign that says, "Hiring labor at $5.00 per hour," you won't get too many takers. Change the dollar amount to $10.00 or $12.00 and the response from applicants improves dramatically.
What the traitorous politicians and businessmen in America have done is to destroy the normal supply/demand forces by flooding the country with desperately poor people, mostly from Mexico. Because they are here illegally, they can be exploited and abused and will remain silent.
There are plenty of unemployed Americans who are willing to work but they understandably will not work for $5.00 per hour. The only way anyone can live on that is to live 25 to a house and sleep on the floor which is exactly the way illegal immigrants live.
The future for working Americans is a dramatically lower standard of living because our leaders in this country are mostly rich and have no loyalty to citizenship or to their country. They will continue to sell out their countrymen and their country as long as the last dollar left in America goes in their own pockets.
This is the inevitable result of the dollar being worshipped before all else - before God, family and country.
To the calloused who cheer the forces of such exploitation, I point out no people will stand idly by for long and let themselves be chopped up economically. There will be an ugly backlash of a magnitude not seen in America before. It may destroy the entire system of government in this country. You cannot throw millions of decent people into the streets without a job and expect them to remain calm.
Anyone who cheers the increasing joblessness of Americans in the interest of global trade is no patriot. Such people ought to hit the road to foreign countries because they are not fit to share the same soil with those who refuse to sell out their countrymen. They ought to be ashamed of themselves for wanting to piss away their own country's prosperity for an extra twenty-five cents. They have no shame and see nothing wrong. Therein lies the problem. We'll remember them and what they have said and done.