[Jim_Curtis]

The cheap mexican labor is also almost entirely unskilled. You can earn more money in construction by: doing skilled work that they can't; moving to a locale where Mexican labor is less available; getting promoted to foreman. But if you're "forced to take the same wages as the Mexican", then presumably you are no more skilled than they; live in Texas; aren't qualified to be foreman.

So if you are unskilled or semiskilled worker you pretty much deserve to have your wages driven down and available work taken from you by illegal invaders?

As for "qualified to be foreman", the main qualification is the ability to speak Spanish.

[Shalom Israel]

So if you are unskilled or semiskilled worker you pretty much deserve to have your wages driven down and available work taken from you by illegal invaders?

As for the "illegal" part, you already read the part where I said I oppose illegal immigration, but support legal immigration. If you have trouble reading English, improving in that area will open up some real prospects for higher pay. As for "qualified to be foreman", the main qualification is the ability to speak Spanish.

...which can be learned fluently in about three months, especially if you befriend some of your Mexicano co-workers. It can't be the only qualification, or every Mexican would be a foreman by now.