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Excuse me if I am repeating others... but doesn't it seem logical that if illegals couldn't find work or services they wouldn't come here?

As long as companies continue to hire them in place of teenagers and legal Americans, we will have this problem. Yes, for sure there are many businesses that will not hire American teenagers in certain areas, and for good reason I'm told. Also, I know of an area where the McDonalds pays incredibly high hourly wages and then has to bus workers from Philadelphia because the locals think its beneath them to do MikeyD's work.

North Carolina packing houses legally import Mexican labor for the crabbing season to do work the locals won't... they would rather be on welfare than pick crabs... or let Mommy and Daddy mortgage the house for college tuition. [By the way, I understand piece-work crab picking pays @$40,000 for a 9 month season. And for the Mexican laborers... it all goes back to Mexico.]

Seems like there is way too much blame in the wrong place here. And boycotting a business because they hire illegals might sound like a good idea, but what are you going to do... ask for papers from every working Hispanic? How do you tell the illegals from the legals when you are ordering a hamburger?

When I was a youngun US Steel hired summer help and most of the young men in my area (Levittown and Fairless Hills) earned college tuition during the summer months... with plenty left over for a car and dates. US Steel is no longer, not to worry about illegal aliens... the steel production is overseas. So now the kids live off the old man's money.

Who do we blame? And more seriously.. what the heck do we do about it? I seriously wish I had the answer... or saw an answer in all these posts. Putting up an iron curtain across our borders just doesn't seem like a well-thoughtout plan to me... but then I don't have anything better to offer.