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We dont want our workers deported. Thats the bottom line.

Kim Shanahan, Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association

Welcome to the other side of illegal immigration.

Its the flip side of secure our borders first, the side that depends on the labor of folks from somewhere else to deliver products to Americans.

Like homes.

And restaurant meals.

And any number of services that used to provide the jobs that used to provide preparation for or membership in the countrys now-shrinking middle class.

Lets face it. Many Americans just wont work as carpenters, framers, drywall installers, bricklayers, roofers and painters. They wont pour concrete or lay adobe. Its honest work, and the pay is pretty good. But its just too hard. Its easier to collect government bennies, play video games and get subsidized insurance.

Thats the system weve allowed to develop, and weve filled the void with immigrant labor. No case better illustrates this than the need to import tens of thousands of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers to rebuild New Orleans after Katrina. And this need for immigrant labor has been in the face of high unemployment and record low workforce participation numbers in the U.S., especially among people under 35.

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Editorial: Immigration reform must factor in workforce needs