AdamT
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Construction trade workers, manufacturing/production workers, landscape/maintance workers, food service workers and retail sales positions ARE jobs. You must remember that over HALF of the U.S. workforce is NOT college educated. Your moronic stereotype of barely speaking english does NOT apply to the vast majority of the 15 million+ of the illegals and certainly not to their 15 million "anchor babies" that were born to them here and edcuated for FREE by taxes paid by the very workers that they now displace. This is what YOU and many similar high and mighty lefties fail to see. These "menial" jobs that you blow off as "beneath you" or not good enough for U.S. citizens are the very jobs that HALF of the U.S. citizens DO FOR A LIVING. Look at the teen unemployment rate, look at the minority unemployment rate and then THINK about how keeping 30 million+ that should NOT BE HERE affects those people; just because YOU do not compete DIRECTLY with these folks, and wish them well, does NOT change reality for many, many AVERAGE U.S. citzens that need jobs NOW. Get real!
The number of undocumented is now around 11 million -- not 15 million. There aren't 15 million people of Mexican descent -- legal and illegal combined -- in the U.S. Number Of U.S. Undocumented Immigrants From Mexico Drops
And the number of "anchor babies" is about four million -- not 15 million.
So please stop exaggerating. You've overstated the problem by 100%.
And of course just getting mad about it doesn't solve the problem. Nor does your getting defensive about being unable to compete with semi-literate immigrants who came here without a dime in their pocket.