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Think about this: Illegal immigration is the economic equivalent

Posted: Dec 28, 2015

It makes no difference in terms of the economic impact on wages whether an employer exports the work to where the cheap labor is located, or takes advantage of cheap labor that comes to where the work is located.

The only difference is that one means used to drive wages lower and keep them low is legal, while the other means is not.

Think about it. Just about everyone on this forum hates what offshoring has done to OUR wages, and yet some support illegal and/or unrestricted immigration with not a moment's thought about what this does to the wages of citizens in our country who work at OTHER jobs.

Now, suppose all those illegal immigrants were medical transcriptionists. A lot of you would suddenly be singing a very different tune with regard to immigration, wouldn't you?! Of course you would (please don't lie to yourself). But, praise the Lord, they're not MTs, are they? This allows you to hold diametrically contradictory positions in your brain simultaneously, without experiencing the slightest twinge of cognitive dissonance.

What's even more odd is that people who want mandatory increases in the minimum wage will also support illegal/unrestricted immigration, which effectively damps the effect of competition for workers in the labor force, which in turn demonstrably drives wages higher precisely where wages should be higher due to demand for workers.

I just can't wrap my brain around this kind of thinking. It's the equivalent of Dr. Doolittle's push-me-pull-you. "I want mandatory minimum wage increases, but I support the influx of cheap labor that keeps wages in the very same income brackets lower than they woud be if employers had to compete vigorously among themselves for workers."

It simply boggles the mind.

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In my area - marge

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Illegals or migrants do the work that no one else will do. I've never understood how they are taking jobs away as in my area they're only helping our farmers. Here illegals don't get anything above farm hand jobs which you can't even get the teenagers to do in the summer now. :( Used to be all the teens got summer jobs picking strawberries or working on the farms but they won't even do it. Without the illegals (sometimes migrants) our farmers would be devastated. :(

What boggles the mind is your assumuption - Listening and reading skills

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Who is it that wants illegal immigrants? I have always been for taking action against the people who hire illegal immigrants. These people are like slave labor to the "owners" working for low wages, no benefits, having social security withheld but never with a hope of actually receiving benefits at old age.

Lock up the people hiring illegals and you have solved the problem. Immigrants here legally is another story, and I notice the right wing likes to confuse that issue by combining the groups.

We should lock up those off-shoring our - service industry too

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Nm

Corporate America sends off our jobs - all that is left

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is to return for more education or go for lower paying jobs. Meanwhile Corporate America (conservatives) complain that we want too much money for lower end jobs and are asking for too much assistance. (the gap keeps widening as they cut out the middle income jobs).

If corporate America equals conservatives in your world - SM

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what, pray tell, do liberals equal? Just a bunch of elitists providing handouts to slackers (excluding SS)??

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