Another generation or two this, and the illegals will be moving into the low level executive/management positions, and in fact have been for many years.
Ya notice the farmers in CA and elsewhere used to have an endless supply of illegals?...Now their hurting for stoop labor in the fields....The illegals by the millions now jam all of our population centers...Not a farm field in sight....
The employers love it.
They are middle America’s replacements.
Farm technology has not kept up with the time because of the illegals and it will not progress because of them.
Maybe the downturn you are talking about will help to come up with the next innovation like the tomato picker that filled the gap of illegals last time.
Why do you think we have the automated cotton picker? We lost a whole bunch of field hands in one big war.
Our government is holding back innovation for cheap labor and the results are fewer jobs for middle America.