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Mexico has a low level of undernourishment; 5 percent of the population is undernourished.

Ranking   Country   Percentage of population suffering from undernourishment in 1990-92   Percentage of population suffering from undernourishment in 2001-2003  
1 Eritrea 68% 73%
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 31% 72%
3 Burundi 48% 67%
4 Tajikistan 22% 61%
5 Sierra Leone 46% 50%
[...]
45 Mexico 5% 5%

Population Undernourished (Percent of Total Population)
2001-2003
Rank Country Name  Percent  
 Global NA
1 Eritrea 73%
2 Congo (Dem. Republic of) 72%
3 Burundi 67%
4 Comoros 62%
5 Tajikistan 61%
[...]
42 Mexico 5%

Your political beliefs are responsible for this simple fact of life effecting millions of US citizens and legal immigrants.  

If illegal aliens have their own companies then then they are filling a need that would otherwise be filled by legal immigrants or US citizens. They have brought nothing new to the table.

I grew up on a farm. I worked on the farm and did other jobs while in high school. Among others I have worked in factories, installed electronic equipment, and yes, been a wait person. I also spent 10 years in service to my country.

And since you are so willing to work in the field picking oranges, lettuce, potatoes or wash dishes in a restaurant and clean offices and bathrooms for minimum wages...Those are the jobs you are wiling to do right? The jobs you are fighting for and  say they take from citizens who are willing to do them.

you conveniently ignore a basic rule of economics: supply = price at quantity demanded. to put this in terms applicable to the present discussion: if the pay offered was commensurate with, or greater than, that which could be received elsewhere, for similar work, people would be trampling the doors down to get those jobs.

however, if using undocumented people enables an employer to radically reduce their labor cost, then legal citizens aren't going to be jumping at them.

as well, it puts that employer in a more competative position, when bidding for a job, because his costs are illegally lower than the guy who only employs people legally able to work here.

this all has a ripple effect.

But the fact remains that there are only X number of jobs. If the jobs are taken by illegal aliens then they are not available for legal immigrants and US citizens.

I have commented numerous times that we should close the border and then rationalize what to do about the 11-15 million people who are already here. I have also commented that we need to pressure other countries, especially Mexico, to change their economic and cultural programs to fix their problems which are forcing millions of their citizens to leave their home country, their families and their friends to try and settle in another nation.

if i can get someone to work for $5 instead of $10, i'm going to do that. that drives down all wages, regardless of the reason for it.

since a fair # of them (especially in the construction trades) are paid cash, the great liklihood is that no taxes, of any kind, are being paid. this is true in the agricultural area as well.

no doubt many of them do pay taxes, but i've yet to see any empirical data supporting the oft made assertion that they collectively pay more in taxes than they receive in public (roads, utilities, emergency medical care, etc.) services. it may well be true, i just haven't seen anything concrete to support it.

as for the ID card mentioned above being used to set up bank accounts, the banks best hope they aren't audited by the feds, they stand to lose their charter, unless they can show an SSN was included.