For every illegal alien from Mexico that is able to find work here we should deport an American to Mexico that supposedly can't. Even trade in my opinion.
You don't seem to understand, the illegalls are lowering the wage of jobs that our citizens used to be able to make a living at, they no longer can. These people live 3-4 families to a house, or come as single guys and live 15 people to a house so they don't have the same expenses, they don't have taxes, they don't have to pay into social security. Most of what they make goes back to their home countries.
I personally have seen jobs such as stucco, roofing, drywall, landscaping, and yard care go from $10-$12 an hour to $6- $7 an hour.
Not only that, when they do bring a wife they have as many kids as they can as fast as they can so they won't be deported because their kids are citizens, and guess who pays the bill for the delivery, immunizations etc of these kids?
After they are established, they are not satisfied with $7 an hour jobs, they then work up into higher paying positions, lowering those wages, so where will it end? More and more US citizens are going to be unemployed or underpaid while alot of their money goes back to their homeland to help support infrastructure and family members still living there.
These people have no intention of becoming citizens, they feel the citizenship of their children will save them, or that they can stay until their kids are grown then the kids can stay, become educated etc. and they will go back home, be supported by their kids, as they have supported their parents.
Did you know that the Mexican government actually has programs to encourage this? In most Mexican states there are organizations of people who receive money from those members working in the US to improve roads, water systems, schools etc, those in the US send money back, then the government matches it. Good deal for Mexico bad deal for US