If the US employment situation worsens, will it spur citizens to take jobs that undocumented workers are doing?

If the US employment situation worsens, will it spur citizens to take jobs that undocumented workers are doing?
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Nope. Unemployment has been bad for 2½ years now, and no one has. Crops went unpicked in Georgia when the state cracked down on undocumented farm workers. They had to get convicts to pick the crops.
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