It has been observed that at the same time people are (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing and moaning about unemployment there are many illegal immigrants here filling a need. I suggest that some of the inner city, impoverished etc. types would better themselves by taking on one of those jobs.

FYI, it isn't beneath me or even others I know...I know an engineer at Boeing, has a masters degree, worked at McDonalds until he got his BA. You can't tell me that only illegal immigrants will work there.

The problem with the presence of them is that they skew the market. Their presence drives up the labor supply yet the demand for their labor remains flat. Guess what, that depresses wages. So, the job becomes less attractive to those already here and attractive perhaps only to them...shouldn't be that way but it is. Simple supply and demand.

That doesn't answer the question of whether the artificial construct of a sovereign border that these poor people have nothing to do with justifies keeping them out. That, IMHO, is the real question, as no doubt our economy would be better off and the legal residents better off by excluding them...