Based on some of the replies to my comment, I think people might have misunderstood what I was getting at. The main purpose of my comment was to say simply that Bloomberg could have made an equivalent rhetorical point in a way that didn't make him sound like a plutocrat arguing that he needed illegal immigrants in order to keep his golf club maintenance fees low.

Also, there's an important difference (to me, anyway) between 1) a descriptive statement about who does certain kinds of work in today's US, and 2) a prescriptive statement about who I think ought to be doing those kinds of work, and under what conditions they ought to be doing so.