[kearnyirish2]

Those people would work the jobs if they weren’t paid so well to sit on their duffs, and the law of supply & demand would arrive at a real wage. They won’t get $15 per hour, but they’d get more than the immigrants take for it. We’d also fix our schools, since industry has no use for a swelling illiterate underclass.

FWIW, over the past decades more & more skilled workers are being replaced by skilled immigrants - and not just in tech.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Those people would work the jobs if they weren’t paid so well to sit on their duffs, and the law of supply & demand would arrive at a real wage.

This is true, at least to some extent. It's the government and welfare that's distorting the supply/demand curve - the immigrant work force is merely a reaction to that and a porous southern border- and of course the border is another government problem. This is a government caused problem, not a business caused problem.

But we still need to get consistent: does a great country provide ALL it's own low skilled labor? I don't think so. Should our immigration policies target the low skilled or the skilled labor markets? I think the answer is obvious.

[central_va]

C. Ed-weird Wrong hates the average American. He is a hater of the nth degree.

Go Trump go!