Then, of course, you would be persecuting the elderly widow who hires an itinerant Mexican worker to mow her lawn and do some yard work around her house because the teenager from down the street who used to do it has grown up and is off to college—and she can't get anyone else to do it for her.

Frankly, I don't begrudge either her or the worker, legal or illegal. Not every itinerant worker gets sick and "sponges off the system." After all, they are trying to earn enough to pay their own way and, hopefully, send some money to their families at home. And as far as income tax is concerned, they probably don't make enough to be in a category where they need to pay any.

And were it not for "illegals" like this, who's going to mow the lady's lawn?

Don Firth