Meanwhile, the U.S. demand for low-skilled workers continues apace as Americans are unwilling to fill certain jobs in manufacturing, hotels, health care, restaurants, construction and other key economic sectors that would screech to a halt if illegal aliens were suddenly to disappear. Tell that to a young carpenter-cabinet maker I know who has to spend three-fifths of his time hustling work from individual homeowners because the construction companies who do the cookie-cutter jobs would rather pay some illegal less under the table.