Dude, really? I don’t even live in Nevada and I can tell you there are illegal aliens working in the Nevada workforce. In fact, I’m betting a round of drinks that every state has illegal aliens in its workforce, whether it admits as much or not.

You’ll have to watch the video embed over at Hot Air for the craptastic quote, but here’s an extension:

REPORTER: Why didn’t you allow for a vote (on E-Verify)?

REID: That’s the reason we need to do comprehensive immigration reform. We cannot do it piecemeal.

REPORTER: You go to the unemployment office, though, and there’s many US citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don’t have specific jobs because, right now, some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers.

REID: I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation

VOICEOVER: We told Senator Reid of a Pew Hispanic Center study showing 17% of all construction workers are here illegally.

REID: That may be someplace, but it’s not here in Nevada.

VOICEOVER: But their latest 2009 numbers show that Nevada is the state with the highest percentage of unauthorized immigrants in the labor force.

According to the Pew Research Center’s 2008 study, Nevada has between 225,000 and 575,000 illegal aliens in the state.

In 2008, 17% of construction workers were undocumented, an increase from 10% in 2003. One in four farmworkers is an unauthorized immigrant.

And that’s just for the construction and farm industries. Nevada has a huge hotel and entertainment industry, obviously, and there’s no reason to believe those are unaffected by the illegal population. So who’s Reid kidding here?