According to this article, illegal immigrants are a potential leading indicator of economic health in this country. Because the jobs they fill tend to be the most marginal jobs in our economy, hence the most likely not to be filled, illegal immigrants are less likely to shoulder the risk of that trip across the border when times are bad. Times are bad at the bottom of the economic period before they are further up it.

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