I've done below-minimum-wage jobs, and I'm grateful for them, as someone who just didn't know what all the helps are (or not qualified to get help, like those i

I've done below-minimum-wage jobs, and I'm grateful for them, as someone who just didn't know what all the helps are (or not qualified to get help, like those illegal immigrants), where to find jobs and what are available. Those jobs prevented me from starving, gave me confidence, and eventually lead to better paying jobs. Although it would suck if I were illegal immigrant and got stuck on one of those jobs, which this article seems to hint. We need to figure out a way to treat illegal immigrants as normal human beings instead of forcing them into urban equivalent of subsistence farming. Maybe not quite handing out citizenship freely like some of the troubled European countries, but there should be opportunities and hopes to get out of survival mode if they worked hard for it.