It’s a good part, but not nearly all of it.
Gotta shut off jobs, too. Here’s Revolver’s take on the opportunity there:
And therein lies the rub. That goal requires the Federill grub-a-mint to usurp the power to control who gets to work and who does not. That's one hell of an extra-Constitutional power. Do you want that? I sure as hell don't.
That is the real penalty for having allowed Democrats to import illegals. Republicans did that for cheap labor, because Democrats and RINOs at the behest of Wall Street were exporting jobs and with them the dollars and technology to make anything, technology that had been created by the people. That made foreign corporations competitive.
In effect, the process replaced people with capital, which the Fed had made virtually free, ripping off the public with inflation. We see it now coming with AI, something we MUST build to stay competitive because of the loaded cost of our labor. That coerced load was placed politically: of which Social Security, Medicare, and military protection of foreign investments are chief. If we don't figure out how to employ people displaced by that demand, we face real chaos (and I do have a plan for that BTW).
In effect, this socialization of risk, savings, and safe transport was fed by a ripoff of intellectual property for which corporate owners had never rewarded their people individually (why they had discounted its value) but instead socialized that too. I contemplate that economic principle every time I crack open a Machinery's Handbook: All that data, all those drawings and specifications on how to make ANYTHING, right there in one book. I'd bet there are copies all over China and India.
I'm no demonRAT plant but you have to know that many small businesses cannot get help.
I have several personal friends that own plumbing and electrical companies and have more than enough business but not enough workers and they all say the same thing, the immigrants, legal or not, show up to work.
I grew up on a farm and so I worked {as much as a young'un can} as soon as I walked, it might have been just sweeping the barn or garage, but it was my job.
Most every older person had to work from a young age and so we are puzzled by today's yutes lack of drive {I blame the parents who are too busy with their i-phone to pay any attention to their kids}.