Mass immigration is big biz' way of keeping wages down.
The labor participation rate--the percentage of working age Americans who are working or looking for jobs, is now only about 67%. Employers looking for workers need to raise wages.
This is not a criticism of immigrants. They are good people. It IS a criticism of employers, the Koch organization, big biz, etc., who work to keep wages down, yet pay themselves hundreds of times what they pay workers.
Absolutely on target, David H. The people who hire "illegal immigrants" never suffer from breaking the law. Only the immigrants, so the high end restaurants, meat packers, and everyone in between can keep getting low wage workers. It is an insidious system and ought to be morally outrageous and legally "out". My two cents worth.......
In 1980, meat packers were Black. They were earning middle class wages, thanks to decades of organizing.
By that decades end, meat packers were mostly immigrants, toiling under atrocious conditions, for barely above minimum wage.
That change was repeated in other trades and jobs over the last 40 years, which is why workers' wages barely budged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html
Mass immigration is big biz' way of keeping wages down.
The labor participation rate--the percentage of working age Americans who are working or looking for jobs, is now only about 67%. Employers looking for workers need to raise wages.
This is not a criticism of immigrants. They are good people. It IS a criticism of employers, the Koch organization, big biz, etc., who work to keep wages down, yet pay themselves hundreds of times what they pay workers.
Absolutely on target, David H. The people who hire "illegal immigrants" never suffer from breaking the law. Only the immigrants, so the high end restaurants, meat packers, and everyone in between can keep getting low wage workers. It is an insidious system and ought to be morally outrageous and legally "out". My two cents worth.......