A white middle class Alabama woman says she has been rejected by prospective employers because she doesn't speak Spanish.

Sandra Langlois, a native of Albertville, Alabama, told CNN the changing demographics brought on by illegal immigration has left working class whites like herself struggling to find gainful employment.

Langlois, a 42-year-old woman who as a child immigrated to the United States legally from Germany, said: 'It's kind of, really, discrimination. If you're not here legally, then you need to go ahead and go back home... They need to come over here the right way. Don't sneak over. Don't stay here.'

Albertville is a town that reflects the demographic changes that are having a major economic impact in wide swaths of the country

The influx of immigrants - both legal and illegal - has made it harder for native-born Americans who don't speak Spanish to find jobs in areas of the country that have grown more ethnically diverse in recent years.

Albertville is a town that reflects the demographic changes that are having a major economic impact in wide swaths of the country.

Its population numbers 21,462 – with 30 per cent of those Hispanic. Nearly 3,800 locals were born outside the US.

Though Albertville is known as the home of the Mueller Company, the fire hydrant-manufacturing giant, it is also the place where poultry processing plants have come in and hired a labor force made up predominantly of immigrants.

Locals like Langlois say the large immigrant population has made it harder for those here legally to find work.

'It's just not fair,' she says. 'It's like they're getting special treatment.'

Others, however, say that the immigrants have bolstered the economy because they are willing to do jobs that native whites will not do.

'There's plenty of jobs,' says an Albertville resident, Ronnie Wise. 'You've just got to want to do it.'

Wise, who is himself unemployed, told CNN that the local economy benefits from a large immigrant population.

'A lot of people don't want to [work in certain jobs], and they (immigrants) will. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have any chicken plants here.'

CNN cited a poll which said that 27 per cent of working class whites believe that their families have been negatively impacted by illegal immigrants taking jobs in their communities.

Of that number, 80 per cent want the government to deport them.

The poll numbers indicate that the sentiment is even stronger in the South, where the changes in population make-up are most acutely felt.

The survey cited by CNN shows that almost half of working class whites (47 per cent) see immigrants as a burden. The number of white college graduates who feel the same way drops to 20 per cent.

White working class angst over economic woes and immigration is fueling the popularity of Donald Trump's candidacy for president

'There's no place [in Albertville] to really be away from them anymore,' said one local, Joe Lusk, a 59-year-old fence company owner.

White working class angst over economic woes and immigration is fueling the popularity of Donald Trump's candidacy for president.

Trump is expected to easily win Alabama and other Southern states where anxiety over illegal immigration is highest.

Nonetheless, it appears that the illegal immigrant population in the US is holding steady. In some states, it might even be dropping.

A new survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that the number of illegal immigrants in Georgia has dropped, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.