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Re:High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattl... by dodobirdlord on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:58PM (#29788269)
If illegal immigration was driving the cost of help down, would they be complaining of a lack of laborers to hire? Someone must be hiring all of these illegal immigrants if their presence is suppressing wages in an industry…
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Re:High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattl... by aksss on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:04PM (#29788959)
There's no minimum wage for illegal immigrants. The higher minimum wage gets, the more incentive there is to draw upon illegal labor markets, particularly the more plentiful the illegal labor units become.
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