The Immigration Obfuscation IV

There is a myth that the United States needs cheap immigrant labor because Americans won't take the jobs.  We need cheap Mexican labor because it is cheap.  Americans would take the jobs illegal Mexicans are now doing if there were no alternative.  If, as in the First Depression, there were no safety nets such as unemployment, welfare and food stamps, destitute Americans would do whatever they had to do to make money.  Because we have safety nets and because the businesses that employ illegal immigrants do not pay the full cost of the illegal immigration , the myth persists.