That may be what's happening in California, but its not happening in the rest of the country. For years here in Texas illegals were restricted to the cash economy, but then big Texas corporations started seeing how toothless the laws were against hiring them, and they started hiring them by the thousands. Next the national corporations figured it out, which is why now you can find them all the way up in northern Maine now.

Heck, here in Texas, if I need to ask for anything at Burger King other than "#4 Supersize" someone has to go get an interpretor. Its no different at Walmart. The end result is that a lot of the entry level jobs that used to go to your kids or the poor or women reentering the workforce are gone. I started getting real mad about this when I went to work for a food processing company and found out they had 22,000 illegals on their payroll. Let that number sink in. 22,000 friggin illegals on a multi-national NYSE listed corporation. That isn't free enterprise, thats treason, and until all of us on both sides left and right start getting really, really mad, we are all going to regret it.

Another company I worked for created a new white collar job for production scheduling, a job requiring at least a business BA. Who do you think got the job? A Mexican! As illegal as the guys on the assembly line! Heck man, people graduate from college in Mexico too, and this company, with an assembly line full of illegals they winked at down at HR, WTF - lets start using their college grads too. People's perception of this being a problem of more people flooding in to mow our lawns better wake up. I do IT contract work for big corporations all over the US and I see this everywhere I go.