[algernonpj]

I don’t think the jobs created include illegals mainly because it is against the law to create a job for an illegal or hire one.

It would really stupid to report you hired an illegal.

Being illegal does not prevent at least 8 million illegals having jobs per PEW.

Of course you wouldn't report you hired an illegal; if you reported the hire of an illegal you would either report their false SSN given you or hire through a temp agency that vouched for them. There was a factory raided out west where every worker used the same SSN and the owner claimed there was no clue they were illegals.

Owning a business does not automatically make you honest!

[TexMom7]

True. But we do have a lot of legal immigrants working in Texas from all over the world. There have been a lot of tech jobs created.

I don’t think the numbers are off as far as job created here and I’ll go along with maybe as many as 5-10% could be illegal.

My son worked in construction as a supervisor and he told me ICE showed up at one of the new construction houses being built. They checked all of their documentation and surprisingly not a single one of them was without papers.
They were all legal.

Most illegals work on the farms, road construction and landscaping. You can hire a contractor but you can’t control who he hires. Seems like I remember Romney getting grilled over something like that in the past. But I don’t doubt he was unaware.

When the recession first hit, many went back to Mexico because there were no jobs for them.