FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
Not really sure about that.... but Cali was Mexico's to begin with... In the rest of the US, immigration aint hurting black employment like that.... sounds like your situation may be a unique one
For some reason half of my comment did not post. I went on to clarify that the construction, restaurant and IT industries among others have all favored ESL laborers here in the West Coast for going on 2 decades.
The UC college system has 4,000+ undocumented students enrolled to date in the same state that outlawed affirmative action 20 years ago which has resulted in blacks being 2-3% of the entire student body across the UC system despite being 6-7% of the state population. There's more undocumented students than there are black students total at the top 5 UC campuses