[RS]

"If it were not for the illegal immigrants willing to take these jobs at extremely low pay, American companies would be forced to offer reasonable wages for these positions; wages that American workers could afford to take. "

Part of the problem is that Americans expect to buy a home, two cars and send their kids to college on the wages they would get for working at 7-11.
Low skill, low paying jobs are simply not a good career choice.

[NJ_gent]

"Part of the problem is that Americans expect to buy a home, two cars and send their kids to college on the wages they would get for working at 7-11. Low skill, low paying jobs are simply not a good career choice."

Young adults who have only themselves to support would do fine with these jobs for a while. High school and college students do just fine in these low-skill jobs. Americans who've been out of work for months or years will often take any job they can find just to get by in the mean time. I had an uncle in IT who lost his 6-figure job when the bubble burst, and who was working at Walmart and another job just to get by after running out of savings while looking for work. He just recently landed a pretty big job and is getting back on his feet. He'd have been on welfare if the low-skill jobs weren't available to help him get by.