Sorry.

Reminds me of my dad's father in 1921 - recent Morehouse Grad. He wanted to be a stock broker. Went up to NYC from Alabama and was continuously told we already have:

An Irish
A Catholic
A Jewish Person
A Colored.

I give my Granddaddy a ton of credit for even trying as a black man - to get in the door.

He's owned several businesses - turning his last one into a workers co-op. They were an Plumbing, Masonry, HVAC and an Iron Works.

He now has shifted back to working on strictly private high dollar clients and his artwork (Juried Artist). He came to America to get away from the constant Saints Days in Italy - and started with his Iron Works/Metal Art and Unesco Certified Metal Restoration Specialist. Think the restoration work at the Hamilton building in NYC.

Here's the thing - he didn't want the other businesses. He came into those businesses due to licenses received in Italy - and connections to other contractors.

No one is hand turning custom made gates and fences anymore. Or railings. Artists? Yes. But they don't have his name.

He didn't take a job from anyone. He's started businesses - legit. On the Green Card he had when his dad came here in 1973 as a structural engineer on the WTC. Know why he was picked? He was trained to build buildings to withstand bombing - like he experienced as a child of war in Italy.

Just as my husband took a big chunk of change last month from Alina Habba's father for custom work - you need to swallow hard and take the money.

All of that said - when my husband was a green card holder (became a citizen in 2020 because he thought 45 might win - and take everything we've worked hard for and given it to some undeserving nobody from nowhere) - he could not hire undocumented workers - for fear of losing his own status.

I put the blame on the employers. Your peers are being dirt bags and using people because they know they can get away with paying them less. And that's the problem - your peers.

Give all the "illegals" citizenship and direct them to the nearest union office.

My mother and her sisters were immigrants that came here to steal jobs as maids and cleaning ladies from REAL Americans.

Over the past 3 years. The latest border bill proposal would have reduced it even further.
The problem isn't the immigrants, it's the employers hiring them.
It's the US-based recruiting groups that have their coyotes find foreign people desperate for honest work - or head back to the poor villages and find families of undocumented workers already here to come over and work in a "relatively safe" environment not under the thumb of cartels.
Too many Blue collar type businesses and managers don't want to take the time to train workers under EEO, OSHA, or DoL regulations for their industries, or per union requirements. They just want to stick a fungible body next a machine for as long as they need to, pay that body as little as possible to get the needed work out of them. and they don't want to hear boo from that body about working conditions.
The undocumented worker isn't willfully undercutting willing and able Blue collar workers. The business hiring the undocumented workers when there are plenty of willing and able citizen workers available.
Perhaps we should be looking at a Canadian film commission type process where US Citizens need to be "first in line" for all hiring and work contracts, there be a program similar to the old braceros program where otherwise undocumented migrants can apply for short term or seasonal work permits and there be a stronger enforcement of labor laws.

Haele