it's a dilemma. can you imagine the cost of our produce if minimum wage laws were enforced in that area? they'd have to be if immigration laws were enforced, and imagine what that would do to our weekly grocery bills. i also think there would be a huge problem getting americans to take those kinds of jobs.
this would apply to all jobs where immigrants are hired below minimum wage.
i can tell you, and this is purely anecdotal and a very small sample size, but based on what i've seen at my school from the high schoolers, there are very few of them that want to work, and very few of their parents that want to make them work. the ones i hire as readers need a lot of training and generally lack a huge amount of ambition and initiative. i can't imagine how they'd do at a factory job or at a lot of jobs that require physical labor.