Immigrants "stealing" jobs

In the writing, “Do Americans Really want Jobs” Rueben Navarrette discusses the issue of Americans who don’t want to do a certain job until an illegal immigrant takes the job. I find this to be very true in a lot of cases. There are many Americans who complain about their jobs, are lazy with their jobs, and also very picky about their jobs. If a job requires too much physical labor and is not exactly what a person wants, many times he/she will deny the job and search for a “better” one. However, if an illegal immigrant happens to get one of these “throw away” jobs all of a sudden people are offended and upset about a job that they didn’t want in the first place. So what is the issue here? Is it that illegal immigrants are stealing American jobs? Or is it that Americans tend to be picky, selfish, and greedy?

I have experienced in the workplace situations where people just don’t want to work. They do it so they can get paid but they don’t work very hard at it and sometimes decide not to show up or they come in late. Often times a person will quit a job because they don’t like it or it was “too hard on them.” I think that illegal immigrants should be allowed to take these “throw away jobs” if they choose to. It is just wrong for an American to dispose of a job and when someone wants to take it the American suddenly wants it back. This is no different than a person throwing away a hamburger and when a homeless person digs it out of the trash to eat it the person suddenly wants it back. Americans are just greedy with their jobs. If an immigrant wants to take an unwanted job, legal or illegal, I think they have every right to. Americans have no place to complain about illegal immigrants “stealing” their jobs because in all actuality, they are just digging those jobs out of the trash.