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Undocumented workers take away the jobs of the poorest 1/10 of Americans. US born Hispanic and black citizens are hurt more than US born whites. Who is looking out for them? Surely no other country. In addition, making it easy to hire illegal immigrants ends up driving down wages (for day labor jobs) by 3-8%, which drives down the cost for all of the 'affluent' people to buy produce and have some yard work done. Breaking federal laws is NOT the solution to these problems. We must use our resources to change immigration laws not to create lazy short term band-aids that ultimately just keep the poor... poor and the undocumented...illegal

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