We hear often of the need for bringing in immigrants from the Third World as an excuse for the illegal immigration and amnesty.

The past history of the United States has been more the story of capital spent on mechanical invention as a replacement for labor than an ethnic succession. Right now an illegal alien has a likelyhood of being employed in the industries of agriculture, landscaping or in construction.

The relative ease with which sourcing manual labor can now be done through employment of the illegals has held back use of existing innovations. Much of what illegals are used for can already be done by machine.

The Roomba vacuuming robot that my sister uses replaces use of manual labor from a human maid. Likewise there are now numerous other labor replacing devices which are not within a household budget but which are the more efficient if there is enough call for them.


The labor intensive manual task of digging ditches for instance can be replaced by mechanical ditch digging. A small landscape contractor would rather hire a day laborer to dig ditches and not spend $50,000 on a purchase of a sporadically used machine.

If the ditch digging machine is operated by a specialist and the specialist has cellular then the landscaper can call in the ditch machine for one or two hours replacing a whole team of temp hand labor. A tool rental firm can tie the larger number of the landscapers together with ditch digging specialists with GPS and logistics programs.

If the amount of American labor declines or labor available in America declines our ingenuity and the reknown creativity of our business people will make up for it.