IMO, immigration has very little to do with the problem, and is more of a political whip. We as a country are simply eroding our own need for (or at least focu

IMO, immigration has very little to do with the problem, and is more of a political whip. We as a country are simply eroding our own need for (or at least focus on) unskilled labor. In fact, we're eroding "almost" all of our labor, unskilled, skilled, artistic, etc... Engineers, software devs/coders, and machinists are some of the only ones that have really escaped the purge, and even they're being eaten by foreign labor and technology. By its nature, entrepreneurs who want to make money try to find areas of the market where there is a cost/supply, productivity, or other form of inefficiency, and then fix it. And they're doing a good job. Whole ranges of American labor have been automated, crowd-sourced, or offshored right out of existence in the US (and world). See this chart by the MIT Tech Review that talks about it. [1] In particular, note the effect of changes in the service industries, such as Uber, which already make up a ridiculously large portion of our economy. Purely speculation, but I'm generally on the side of folks that think "first world problems" is very shortly going to represent having tons of productivity and no actual jobs. [1] http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/destroying.jobs_.chart1x910_0.jpg http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/d...