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

I realize it sounds like that. But in fact no country is totally immune from illegal aliens except possibly North Korea.
The fact that Toronto's illegals are in a single industry (sure there's gotta be the odd one in other fields) and the fact that most here would not knowingly hire an illegal for work they need done is the difference. In other words, the building industry here is an aberration, not the rule.

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>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.

But it's a 'dirty little secret' because everyone was PRETENDING that it didn't exist or that such folk did only menial jobs not 'worthy' of red-blooded Americans.
In other words, the ends justified the means.