Joanne, I am in communication with others who live in the border states and resent the current migration of Mexicans to the US for the many reasons you give. I have heard from farmers hereabout in Virginia who would prefer to employ Mexicans than take a mix of latino seasonal workers. I cannot speak from experience, but I've been told that the Mexicans are hard workers. Perhaps that is some part of the reason they are so popular in construction work in your neck of the woods. Newcomers or immigrants working for less than the established workforce is not new. It has been the case with every wave of immigration that you can research in the history books. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org