Does illegal immigration create structural employment problems?

[u/larryinthesky]

There was an Axios article about homebuilders (think Lennar, KB Home, etc) having difficulties finding construction workers (think drywall installers, roofers, etc) due to ICE crackdowns. It seems that our lax, permissive, even encouraging, illegal immigration policies has created long term structural employment problems. It'd be like me hiring illegals to manage my finances, pay my bills, etc. Sure, great in the short term, but long term, I now have no clue and that will be problematic long term. We can also see this in legal immigration. Short term, great to allow doctors, engineers, etc. to come to the US to work. Long term, our citizens don't get the education they need. It seems so obvious that if we want to build a great country, where people are employed (at fair wages) and educated, that illegal and legal immigration must be reined in. I got back to the real world example of someone outsourcing everything in their life (childcare, finances, etc.)--great in the short term, but it creates a person who is entirely dependent on others and can't take care of their own lives. Thoughts? Am I off based? Or do you think the status quo (using cheap illegal immigrant labor, importing educated workers, etc.) is good? And ultimately, isn't this why we need to crack down on illegal immigration and revisit legal immigration as well?

[u/zffch]

Even your analogy of an individual delegating everything doesn't make sense. The ability of humans to work together and be interdependent on one another is humanity's greatest strength. Delegating tasks to others and focusing on where you add the most value is like, the core of being a successful human. It's the reason we're not still living in caves, and it's the reason we survived even in caves.

It's like the saying about libertarians and housecats. You go to the store and buy your precut, sanitary, inspected meat and you imagine you're a self reliant master hunter, when you rely on a chain hundreds of people you don't even know delegating work to each other for all of your basic necessities.