In California, lower paid illegals have harvested, cooked in restaurants, bussed tables, worked construction and helped remodel homes or landscape. Tomas Jimenez, Ph.D., is an Irvine fellow and a sociology associate professor at Stanford University. He studies immigration trends.

"We have less of an ability to afford these services. Because of that they go back and so at some point the number we will need will find its own level," says Jimenez. LINK to video

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