Originally Posted By: ClapperZapper
....illegal immigration and the way it suppresses wages for bottom tier labor.

I am also serious that our big cities are violent $hitholes full of useable bottom tier labor....

I just do not believe this is true in general. Inner cities do not have a 'usable' pool of labor. There is a potential pool, but facts say that potential is not able to be tapped.

Take detroit, a clear labor pool exidus, maybe not all bottom tier. How come illegal mexicans are tending crop fields and those workers headed elsewhere. If you felt the pressure of illegal competition for cheap labor, it was one of the rare example where legal citizens were willing to take the job, as you mentioned, for a price.

If you can truly identify usable bottom tier labor, then they shouldn't be paid to sit on their hindsides. There's your enforcement budget and then some, if there's a will to enforce.