The reality of it is, over 700,000 people have died in the US the past couple of years. Better than half of those people were in the workforce.
As people move up to fill vacancies, there is no one left to fill those lower positions.
Regardless of your opinion of legal or illegal immigrants, we need bodies to fill those lower wage jobs. I'm not going out picking lettuce or making hamburgers for minimum wage.
If there is an illegal who is willing to do it and keep costs down, what do you care where they come from.
As for the P/O, they're hurting for help. They have carriers running two routes a day. Working them 12-14 hours a day. I'm retired from the P/O as a city carrier and they sent a letter asking me to consider coming back.
No thanks!
It took me nearly 2 years to get hired on to the P/O. Now, you can walk in and be working a few days later. That's the same for other jobs as well.
My brother works for Ford. He says that they brought in over a 100 temps at the plant he works at. Cincinnati Milacron, one of the biggest milling machine producers in the world, one of the toughest jobs to get around here, has been running help wanted ads on TV here in Cincy during prime time.
All I know is that if I were thinking of opening a fast food joint or retail business, I'd take my butt down to the border and recruit as they came across the wall.
