sethnintendo on 09 April 2017
| Nettles said: All well and good if there wasn't tens of millions already unemployed in the USA.More immigrants now just means more labor supply and hence lower wages. |
Yea this reeks of a lets keep wages surpressed for big business if you ask me. I work manufacturing right now in Texas (right to work state, which means it is pretty much right to fire and screw unions). We have mainly Asians, Hispanics, Blacks and Iraqis as operators. Guess what the starting wage for operator there? 10.50 with most people being hired with below average English skills that are fresh off the boat or plane. They've kept it this starting wage since about 2008. Pretty damn good for their bottom line.
Look what happened to the meat packing industry. You used to be able to get a decent wage starting ~20 bucks a hour. Flood in a bunch of illegal immigrants and now the starting wage in meat packing plants is around 10 now.
