Nice link Taijilib.
I gew up in the midwest. Us city kids worked the farms in the summer. Why? Because we wanted that first car, or stereo, or whatever. Nothing was given to us.
Let's take a few industries:
Construction - Illegals get paid $10/hr to do the jobs that americans would love to be doing but they used to make upwards of $15/hr. Now they have to take alot less. But americans will do those jobs.
You contradict yourself right here by admitting that Americans are "used to" making better wages. Well, the illegals are doing it for less, with no insurance of any kind, no benefits...just cash and carry. And the various companies that hire them are quite happy about it. The whole point of being an American is NOT to work in conditions that it took generations to improve on.
Yard care - Same story on the wages. As a matter of fact there are american owned companies doing those jobs now.
Food service - Lots of highschool and college kids work at mcdonalds as first jobs, and to get through school. Lots of waitresses out there still doing there thing. Nothing new there.
And what's your point? The illegals that are being hired are adults, looking for more than just a summer or a temp job. at Mickey D's
Prok/beef/chicken processing plants - Again, americans would love those jobs, but the wages have been driven down so far by the illegals.
Sorry to inform you, but illegal aliens didn't cross the border and DEMAND the owners and operators of these plants to lower their wages.....you can thank the OWNERS and OPERATORS for that. Funny how you seldom see the owners of a food processing plant with multiple violations of hiring illegals getting frog walked by Feds to lock up.
So what jobs are you talking about that americans won't do? I say that if the jobs are there, then americans will do them. Unless they deign not to consider such lowly work as most kids do.
Why do wages go down? Because employers pay illegals under the table, also known as working for "tax". In other words, no taxes are payed by anyone involved, so alot of it can't be tracked. That might be one reason americans don't want those jobs, because wages have been driven down so far by the illegals.
Something else to consider. Most illegals working here don't want to become americans. They just want to send money home, and they to, by the billions every year. Why not help mexico clean up it's own house? You sound like a crusader, go down to mexico and help them do it! It'd be just like going south in the 60's for civil rights, which was really a noble cause. (no sarcasm intended).