[detroitdarien]

Sure, the homebuilders follow the rules. The thing is, the rules don't apply to illegals.

And what employer wouldn't want employees who work arbitrarily long hours with no overtime, who will work under unpleasant and dangerous conditions and NOT COMPLAIN? And whose existence lowers the wages for everyone else..

What's not to like? Who cares about our culture, language and national security when there's a few more bucks to be made?

[My2Cents]

Precisely.

[Vigilanteman]

--When the braceros fell away, crops were harvested with mechanical pickers, and the operators of the new equipment were indeed paid more. But the machines also were more efficient, and what the farm owners lost in higher wages they more than made up for in higher productivity.

The most telling part of the entire article is buried in the next to the last paragraph. The economy would NOT collapse if all the illegals left.