The article says the 21 million new jobs need to be created. There are perhaps 15 million illegal aliens in the country. Let's assume that 10 million are working.
So, Step 1: Deport all illegal aliens.
We have just found jobs for 10 million Americans. 11 million more jobs to find.
Step 2: Put a tariff on goods coming in from all those countries with unfair trade practices (yes, that would be China). At the same time, make it easier for American businesses to expand.
Less Chinese goods will be sold because now they are priced higher. American factories will pick up the difference.
Step 3: Stop letting in millions of Somalis and other legal immigrants on the Teddy Kennedy welfare train.
(1) One of the reasons why illegals are here is that they work cheaper than minimum wage.
Even if there were 15 million, and even if 10 million had full-time jobs rather than just episodic day labor, the minimum wage would guarantee that much of that employment would simply evaporate.
(2) Imposing a tariff would immediately cause consumers to rein in spending, which would cause an immediate loss of many retail jobs. There is a long-term argument to be made here, but in the short term it would be punishing.
If you were very lucky, your two proposals would leave the unemployment rate flat.
So, Step 1: Deport all illegal aliens.
We have just found jobs for 10 million Americans. 11 million more jobs to find.
Step 2: Put a tariff on goods coming in from all those countries with unfair trade practices (yes, that would be China). At the same time, make it easier for American businesses to expand.
Less Chinese goods will be sold because now they are priced higher. American factories will pick up the difference.
Deporting illegals is a good start, but many of those jobs would simply be outsourced to other countries where the labor costs are lower (frighteningly, the chart notes the high cost of labor here................and we are flooded with illegals.......which if illegals are doing the jobs of Americans, then that cost of labor wouldn't be an issue, which leads me to conclude this whole line about illegals doing work is simply B.S.).
As of right now, thats not considered an unfair labor practice.
You would see the great American exporting of all jobs.
Get rid of minimum wage laws AND illegals.