1. America has a manual labor shortage that simply didn't exist four decades ago. It's not that the illegals are doing the jobs that Americans won't do, it's that they're doing the jobs that there aren't enough Americans to do. Talk to the owner of any construction company, there are many jobs (jobs that pay pretty well) that it is impossible to hire Americans for. Go back in history, the problems with illegal aliens began roughly a decade after Roe v. Wade and two decades after the Sexual Revolution began. There was a demand for labor and the illegals came and met the demand.
I want to thank you for one of the all time great posts on FR that I've seen. Not only do you hit on a reality so many talk show hosts and Freepers want to deny (talk to people who actually HIRE for a living.....) a reality that Ive been flamed for on this site for merely pointing it out - but you opened my eyes to the tie between abortion and the labor shortage. I've understood the abortion population issue and housing, for example, but never connected these dots. Thank you for that. What an amazing perspective. Our illegal situation is nothing but the product of supply and demand - PLUS - a porous border for 70 years - AND made worse by abortion depleted supply.
I've been in construction management for twenty years, it is IMPOSSIBLE to hire non-Hispanics for certain positions. I know a guy who has owned a drywall company for over forty years, he didn't know a word of Spanish when he started out and now he's fluent in it.
Our illegal situation is nothing but the product of supply and demand - PLUS - a porous border for 70 years - AND made worse by abortion depleted supply.
The border has always been porous, but the flow didn't really start until the 1980s. And, it's worth noting that the flow slowed considerably during the recession - they will only come of there are jobs to be had.