No we aren't.
> Which is guaranteed to attract a huge amount of low skilled labor. Which guarantees low wages (simple supply-demand). And if you artificially control wages, it will result in unemployment of the unskilled.
Right now, the government is artificially suppressing wages by threatening to deport immigrants. Employers take advantage of government enforcement by promising to hide the worker in exchange for poor wages and living conditions.
Giving immigrant workers visas, thus rights is a solution to this. No more artificially suppressed wages because the workers don't fear the government
> Why do you think we have tent towns all over California?
Because they won't allow for enough housing to be built.
Yes, you are.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/12/759442642/immigration-where-2...
So when you push the value of labor to a leave where people cannot afford to live, folks in the US either end up on social services, social security disability, or are incarcerated.
Whenever there are changes to minimum wage, the parade of chamber of commerce types bemoan the horrors that will befall them. Yet somehow burgers get flipped and shelves get stocked.