That's bullshit. Americans just won't put up with shit wages.

Outside farm labor was brought in and they were willing to work for so cheap that Americans just gave up on picking fruit or farm work. In high school, many of my classmates worked in the orange groves to pick up extra money.

During my hippy-dippy college days I worked a lot of construction jobs, and most of my fellow laborers were other freaks, long hair under the hard-hats. Working summers pouring concrete or building forms paid most of my college bills. I tied steel, busted rebar, poured asphalt and did roofing work, and all my colleagues were other college students. Just think, that lazy, stoner, privileged pampered generation held most of the laborer, casual and helper positions, and some even were formally apprenticed to trades in union training programs. OOPs! No unions any more...

We did it because we were young, strong, and smart, and because the pay was good, even for unskilled grunt work. All that crap about how Americans won't do dirty manual labor is just that: crap. When the bosses learned they could get away with using undocumented workers that's who they started hiring, construction, agriculture, domestics, factory work. Every time I ride my bike past a construction site today I don't hear any English spoken, it's all Central American accented Spanish, and sometimes, Mexican Indian languages I don't even understand. And the skilled tradesmen are often Irish, they'll work for cheap too.

And pretty soon, all those nice middle class white folks office-type jobs will be held by foreigners, too. Have you noticed how many professionals lately are, Asian, Middle-Eastern, Eastern European, South American, etc. We live in a society that deprecates education, academic achievement and intellectual ability. We go to college for the football and the frats, and study lunatic disciplines like real estate investment counseling, sports journalism and event planning. So when we need a doctor, lawyer or college professor, we get an Israeli, or a Brit or a Czech.

"Americans won't do that kind of work." is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And its also a lie. The "illegals" are here because they were invited. And like the slaves that were brought into Rome because Romans "wouldn't do that kind of work" they'll be the ones picking up the pieces after everything goes to shit.