Whether illegals are a blessing or a curse seems to depend a lot on the complaint of the day. When we start talking taxes, illegals become a collective pariah, because they don't pay any. When we start talking about rising food prices (particularly on produce), illegals are the only friends we have. Their willingness to work (hard) for wages far below what most white bread Americans would consider acceptable is largely responsible for the fact that produce has been as affordable as it has for so long.

Frankly, I can't decide how I should feel about that issue. Lots of issues are like that, seems to me. Take this generational argument that somehow sprang up in this thread, for instance, for which I will start a new thread later....