Let me add my 2 cent worth. When I was growing up, there weren't very many immigrants in my part of the country. Yet, there didn't seem to be any problem finding Americans to do crappy jobs. In fact I DID some crappy jobs for awhile in my youth. Of course, they DID have to pay me minimum wage, and there was a limit to how much abuse I'd take, since I could just find another crappy job. There are reasons for businessmen to prefer illegals, but are they really GOOD reasons (to anyone but them)?