>Oh, I'm sure there are some. In Toronto I understand that a large part of the construction business uses illegal aliens (Portugese seem to have the monoply).
>On the other hand, we've had special arrangements for years regarding agricultural picking/packing, sourced mainly from the Carribean I understand.
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>And no matter how you slice it neither Canada nor Europe has anywhere near the magnitude of illegals as you have in the U.S. That's what makes it a "dirty little secret"... everyone pretended that there was no problem because business enjoyed the profits and comsumers enjoyed some savings too.

You seem to be arguing that sure, Canada does it, but the U.S. does it more, so...

I'm not really sure that's a sound argument. However, it's not a dirty little secret. It's been known about for some time.