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.
Deport and don't let them in. We have more than enough americans to do the jobs. I don't see why an american couldn't also pick crops.
Most Americans won't do the jobs that illegal immigrants do, at the prices illegal immigrants do them. Cause American citizens pay taxes.
pay them more then.
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.