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Re:Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession by jlawson on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:37PM (#19829539)
Lots of jobs can't really be moved offshore. Millions of these jobs are filled by illegal immigrants at illegally low wages. Farm workers. Domestic workers. Child care. Food service. Retail. Drivers. Massive portions of the labor force.

Current pro-illegal implicit policy is a subsidy to capital at the expense of both the illegals and displaced American workers.

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Re:Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession by andrekandre on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:00PM (#19829654)
that is definitely true, though i would argue ai and robotization will take huge swaths of those industries out of people’s reach in the near future

it is also absolutely true also that pro-illegal immigration only helps the business interests, but my original point was, that just blocking immigration (legal or otherwise) won’t necessarily solve everything because corporations have many options at their disposal

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