"adam russell" <adamrussell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1207768684_79283@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Id like to add that the entire labor market becomes depressed due to
> illegal workers. They work cheap not because they are mexican or
because
> they are poor, but primarily because they are illegal. It significantly
> reduces their ability to ask higher wages. This first reduces the going
> wage in that specific labor market, and secondarily reduces the going
> wages in the labor market in general for that geographic area. Legal
> workers cant ask for more pay for farming (as example) when the employer
> can just go out and get illegals cheaper. And people in other
industries
> in the area also have reduced ability to tell their employer "Ill just
go
> work for someone else if I cant get more pay here", since there are less
> choices of other places to go since some jobs choices are monopolized by
> cheap illegal labor. Everyone that works for a living loses wages to a
> degree depending on how distant they are from the illegal jobs market.
Actually, ALL wages are lower due to illegal workers. If wages are lower
in
one field, that means that more workers are attracted to a higher paying
job, which creates a glut of workers in that higher paying job. This
lowers
wages for THAT job, making more workers choose higher paying jobs,
lowering
wages in those jobs, and so on. Eventually you get up to the guy who is
earning $30 per hour but should be earning $40 per hour because too many
illegal workers were willing to work for minimum wage or even less. -Dave
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