adam russell <adamrussell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Id like to add that the entire labor market becomes depressed due to
illegal workers.
Nope, just the dregs of the labor market.
> 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.
Nope, doesnt depress the wages of doctors, engineers or lawyers etc etc
etc.
> Legal workers cant ask for more pay for farming (as example) when the
employer can just go out and get illegals
> cheaper.
Yes, but it doesnt affect the wages of professionals.
> 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.
There's plenty of jobs illegals dont get to do.
> Everyone that works for a living loses wages to a degree depending on
how distant they are from the illegal jobs
> market.
Nope, professionals most obviously arent affected at all
and get to employ the illegals to do the menial work like
the lawns, wiping kids arses, cleaning the house, etc etc etc.
Its nothing like as black and white as you claim.
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