10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by tstrimple on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:57PM (#41021242)

You're exactly the sort of person who also maintains that burger flippers don't deserve a liveable wage and that there's no such thing as a liveable wage outside of what the market dictates. You'll turn around and scream about inflation due to "highly paid Americans" picking fruit, and demand that something must be done about such outrages. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by zozbot234 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:16PM (#41021360)

> You're exactly the sort of person who also maintains that burger flippers don't deserve a liveable wage

U.S. nationals and permanent residents can get EITC to supplement low wage income. Letting in more illegal aliens that will compete with them in the labor market is absolutely a policy choice - it has zilch to do with "market dictates". If you don't allow illegals into the country, the market will thereby be allowed to "dictate" higher wages.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by tonynator on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:21PM (#41021386)

I fully support increased wages for menial jobs, as long as they're not going to illegals

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by ironhaven on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:50PM (#41021525)

So the illegal immigration issue is not important to you for its economics affects or changes to quality of life but just due to your fear of the other. Thank you for making your priorities more clear.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by stale2002 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @09:25PM (#41021637)

> for its economics affects or changes to quality of life

The premise of the comment that you are responding to is that because of supply and demand, and because these people are desperate, it reducing the wages for those jobs and makes those bad jobs worse.

Thats horrible and less people should be doing those bad jobs, and the wages should increase! Desperate immigrants doing those jobs is just people pushing off bad things to a vulnerable population, and the world would be better off if those jobs got automated away entirely.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by tonynator on Sunday July 21, 2024 @03:50AM (#41023304)

What? My issue is that Americans are getting screwed over to help illegals. No more illegals = higher wages for Americans.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by tstrimple on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:16AM (#41064948)

Can you show your math on this one? How much approximately are "Natives" losing out to "Illegals"?

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