In Mortal Danger, by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R, CO): on Jobs

Americans don’t shun jobs; they shun low wages

Let’s be clear about what is really going on in terms of jobs “Americas won’t do”: (1) they aren’t shunning those jobs, they are shunning the bottom-of-the-barrel wages those jobs pay; and (2) those jobs are paying bottom-of-the-barrel wages because they are going to low-skilled illegal workers who are willing to do them for far less than an American worker needs to live.

The right question is not why someone will not take a $6/hour job when he or she needs $10 o $20/hour to live. The right question is how can they take such a cut in pay & survive? After Americans have, for generations, fought for and won a better standard of living, why should they be expected to give it up so non-citizens can work? It’s absurd.