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I don't believe illegal immigrants are taking away jobs. CMV

I used to be on board with the idea that illegal immigrants are taking jobs, until I actually moved to an area with a lot of illegal immigrants. That kind of changed my view.

From what I observed, illegal immigrants tended to take jobs that no one else really wanted to do in the first place. The kind of jobs that most pampered U.S. citizens would say, "Hell no, that's too much/too degrading/too low pay for the amount of work/etc." Illegal immigrants seemed to do backbreaking/disgusting labor outside in 90+ degree whether with high humidity.  Basically, all the jobs they took seemed to be the ones few people would want to do in the first place.

I really don't think illegal immigrants are threatening anyone's jobs, and if they are that it's wayyyyyy over exaggerated. I think people feel so strongly against illegal immigrants because they feel prejudice towards them, especially considering most people think illegal immigrant = Mexican. When that's not always true.

CMV.
gpt
It is less that they take *your* job as it is they are a source of cheap labor. You may not want a job washing dishes or cleaning a house, but if a someone is willing to do that kind of work for for $4/hour it depresses the wages of all similarly low skill jobs. If you were a high school drop out, this impacts you. It is a downward economic force on your pay, keeping wages low so that legal labor stays "competitive." It will also mean that some jobs simply never get offered to the general public in the first place, jobs that an unemployed low skill worker might really want. While most jobs undocumented workers do and most jobs citizens do have little overlap there is still overlap, it's one of the factors for why unemployment is much higher among unski.

This is a separate issue from what to do about it. People want to come to this country so badly they would break the law to do so, who are we as descendents of immigrants to tell them they can't stay? 

But from a purly economic side of things there is a negative impact on citizens at the lower ends of the economic scale (though there is arguably a benefit to all citizens from having cheaper labor cost resulting in cheaper goods especially food).