Rod Speed wrote:
> 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.
Which is still several steps up from a career welfare leech.
>
>> 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.
Still more work than you ever did, welfare boy.
>
> Its nothing like as black and white as you claim.
>
>
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