That's the problem. Low skill / high labor work has been wage-stagnant for 30 years due to illegal saturation of the labor market.
If we do start to push out all the illegals, we will have to do it fairly slowly, and offer a lot of wage increases.
For example, in 1988, I worked as a landscaper in Tennessee for $10 per hour. 33 years later, landscaping jobs don't pay much more than that. Minimum wage has more than doubled in that time, if I am remembering right.
Not saying we shouldn't do it, just saying that it's going to be hard to do it quickly without really screwing up the manual labor & low skill labor markets.
Just let the free market sort it out honestly. The simple fact is the USA has a massive federal budget deficit, state and local government is loaded with debt, federal government is loaded with debt. We need to return to fundamentals where there is less government and that ultimately means less welfare programs. People need to be working.
I agree, but illegal immigrant labor is like a drug addiction to our economy. Take away too much, too fast, and the economy collapses.
Market forces are not always kind. We need to get rid of illegal immigrants doing illegal labor for crappy wages, but we have to wean ourselves off it. Going cold turkey on illegal labor will hurt us.
That's the problem. Low skill / high labor work has been wage-stagnant for 30 years due to illegal saturation of the labor market.
If we do start to push out all the illegals, we will have to do it fairly slowly, and offer a lot of wage increases.
For example, in 1988, I worked as a landscaper in Tennessee for $10 per hour. 33 years later, landscaping jobs don't pay much more than that. Minimum wage has more than doubled in that time, if I am remembering right.
Not saying we shouldn't do it, just saying that it's going to be hard to do it quickly without really screwing up the manual labor & low skill labor markets.
Just let the free market sort it out honestly. The simple fact is the USA has a massive federal budget deficit, state and local government is loaded with debt, federal government is loaded with debt. We need to return to fundamentals where there is less government and that ultimately means less welfare programs. People need to be working.
I agree, but illegal immigrant labor is like a drug addiction to our economy. Take away too much, too fast, and the economy collapses.
Market forces are not always kind. We need to get rid of illegal immigrants doing illegal labor for crappy wages, but we have to wean ourselves off it. Going cold turkey on illegal labor will hurt us.
Sometimes you need to cut a finger off to get rid of cancer.