Yes it was my point, see my post below.
Post #35. "Well, you could take a leisurely stroll over to your closest tech high school and ask the soon to graduate students who is their biggest threat to getting a job in their chosen field. Guess who?"
And my response was that "the honest answer would likely be their dope-addled minds" which brought a response from that you couldn't be a druggie and handle the complexities in repairing a Beamer, and basically I agree.
So if these kids can fix a Beamer they are not druggies and have nothing to worry about as far as illegals.
Of course, if they don't have that set of skills you implied they had . . .
Anyway, around here, the troublemakers are usually pushed into the vocational-technical program. Now, not every kid in vo-tech is such and many often end up getting a valuable education and doing real well, but they are not the ones who seem concerned about losing their job to an illegal (actually, they would be more likely to be hiring them).
The ones who are concerned about losing out -- at least in the rare times they may be cognizant that they may one day actually need a job -- are the burnout types.
And truthfully, if I had to make a choice between hiring an illegal or one of these burn-out types, I think I'd go with the illegal.