[snickeroon]

Sorry, but I don't see this as true. There are PLENTY of American citizens who are more than happy to have houses to clean, lawns to mow, and be seasonal workers. The point is closer that people EMPLOYING them want to pay as little as possible with no benefits. This means that we ALL end up picking up the tab on health care, food stamps, and other living subsidies to ILLEGAL aliens. I just do NOT understand how anyone can condone this ILLEAGAL activity while it is not alright in general to violate the law.

What we are being told is that if you don't like the way the law is written ignore it, and it will be alright. BAD message. BAD idea.

[BiffSchneider]

In Los Angeles, most of the fast food workers are Hispanic. Go to a smaller town (say, up 395, or SLO area, etc.) and many of the workers are, gasp!, white. Go to South Central, and many are, gasp!, black. Just because many of these jobs are currently worked by illegals doesn't mean that they wouldn't be taken by citizens if there weren't enough illegals.

[speekinout]

I wasn't talking about allowing illegal aliens to do this work. I was talking about having a guest worker program so they could do it legally.

And, no, Americans will NOT do the work. At almost any price. Of course, most of the work comes with no benefits. Who could afford to have someone clean their house once/week or mow the lawn in the summer if they had to pay health insurance?

These are jobs that have a certain value - either there is work at the price it is worth, or there is no work at all.