[Dane]

Hey Dane--you're a waste of breath. You read what you want to see. He said illegal, though your pals on the hill are doing their best to lump all Mexicans--law abiding immigrants and felons, into the same category.

Sorry egg on your face, Freedomfriend, was complaining about the Mexicans working construction, and I asked him what was bad about it.

Please tell me what is bad about people putting up buildings, working in the searing heat and numbing cold?

[Oregon Coast Conservative]

There is nothing wrong with people working here Dane, the problem is we have to have some control over who comes in and how many. Or would you prefer that we just get rid of our border control completly, and allow anyone that wants to come here to do so. I hope your ready to give up your house, job, environment for it, cause they aren't getting mine without a fight.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

What's bad about it is that AMERICANS aren't doing it! Americans WORK you know!

[Egg]

Now you're lying (why am I not surprised). I posted his very words: illegal Mexican. Admit it, Dane--you just have a problem with the concept of a border.

[Buckeroo]

"Please tell me what is bad about people putting up buildings, working in the searing heat and numbing cold? " -- Dane

From your perspective, these people have shouldered a monumental task that is considered "beneath" the salt and the Earth types, here in America. But, what I infer by your point is not true.

I am not in construction. But I have an axe to grind about illegal aliens displacing construction workers here in California. We used to have decent construction characteristics within new housing although this observation dates over 20 years ago. Today, we have the cheapest construction allowable for new houses; all based upon non-qualified illegal aliens displacing journeymen of a decade or so ago. They originally did it, by accepting lower wages while simultaneously lowering the quality.

Little things, like not nailing the shingles down upon new roofing; not providing a solid base for modern showers and baths; irregular framing that is four degrees off center. Within a new home, you can't detect these "little" things until some time elapses as repair upon repair is required.

The truth is, illegal immigrants steal jobs away from Americans; they do it at a lower rate with vastly lower quality in general. More than that, they steal our hard earned tax dollars to supplant their incapacity to afford health care and other services, especially those provided by the government.