General Discussion

due to illegal workers either being deported or simply staying off the job sites.

The logic being that those jobs still have to be done so employers needed to hire legal residents and citizens to fill them.

It is very telling that those jobs did not increased the number of employed and counted workers in the USA ( either because the job went unfilled due to cost OR because the employer will get by with fewer workers for now waiting until they can bring back the illegal immigrants as lower cost after ICE leaves the area ).