[QUOTE=Explorer8939;2872109]To be able to work for $20 an hour in the US, a Mexican would need a green card with Social Security number. Not so many of those.
It's not like anyone in Tijuana can just go to San Diego to work.
There are also US residency requirements to maintain the green card.[/QUOTE]Thus is not true. Many people from certain countries gets quick working papers by requesting asylum. Even if you aren't one of those countries, anyone requesting asylum gets working papers in about 6 months. Of course asylum can be dragged out 10 to 20 yrs. Even if you lose the asylum case you can demand a new look at the case. The asylum dates are backlogged yrs. Nobodybreally knows because their 1st appearance is 2 yrs down the Road but it may be back logged 10 yrs or more. Then you have the fact most people here on asylum will find a back up method to get citizenship through marriage, or being victim of a crime. Then you have the whole usa working on borrowed social security cards. I used to see this stuff at work the borrowed ss cards are in the many why millions. I know many people in San diego working on borrowed ss card, same place 10 yrs, filing taxes with their real adress name, and they didbt even bother to do asylum. Show up and work. The irs can not share this info with ice and nobody gets deported for working on borrowed ss cards any more.