>>Legal and illegal immigrants already do the menial jobs at Colorado ski resorts--earning starting pay of $9/ hr--not 50 cents per day--and the sky hasn't fallen.<<

Because no one works for $9 an hour accept illegals and college students.

$9 an hour IS a pittance. I couldn't survive on it without a serious readjustment of my lifestyle. I'd lose my house and I am not exactly living in a mansion in an exclusive neighborhood. I live in Detroit. I think that's all that needs to be said about that. And a $9 an hour job would put me on the street.