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Originally Posted by host
So, as a consequence of your proposal, the underskilled, undereducated, less able...the vast numbers with below average intelligence quotients who are legal, can suck it up, with no compensation to offset the effect on wage rates of the huge increase to the legal pool of lower tier labor, as they did in the aftermath the last "great amnesty", in 1986, and later, when the promised, strict enforcement of existing laws", failed to materialize. The less advantaged can G-F-T, in other words.
Your amnesty is only a portion of the total effect of your proposal. The net effect, after all of the relatives of the predominantly young now illegal laborers you are extending amnesty to, also are admitted as permanent US residents, is a shitload of low skilled, working age folks.
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I agree with this analysis. There are many people from poor countries who are willing to work for slave wages and many employers here who are willing to hire them. If the managers and higher paid (skilled) workers from these companies were losing their jobs there would be a large outcry to stop it. Its as if we believe that lowering the wages of our blue collar workers is good for the rest of us.
I wonder what the reaction would be from our white collar workers if we allowed an influx of illegals that cut their wages and benefits in half? Would we be talking about the advantages of lower prices for those of us still able to make a decent wage? Maybe that is the next step, after all it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to do most of the paper shuffling jobs in corporate America. Lower wages = lower prices + higher profits, what could possibly go wrong?