[Marius3188]

"There is no arguing that labor shortages raise wages and that labor surpluses push them down," Borjas said. "By limiting the number of undocumented workers, there will be more competition for labor and less competition for work. This will drive up wages."

Who ever said doing something the right way was easy.

To have an entire workforce based on a false premise(Illegal Immigrants) is silly.

[Anti-Bubba182]

This is good, but once employers realize this is an election year, "round up the usual suspects" gambit, it will be back to business as usual.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Stricter immigration enforcement hits builders in the wallet"

Boo hoo. I've watched two homes be built in the last six years and the quality is not good (and that's being polite). In both cases the buyers had to watch the construction closely and make the builder correct numerous deficiencies along the way. Not to mention keeping the workers from relieving themselves in the tub & shower rather than going to the porta john.

[ansel12]

"To have an entire workforce based on a false premise(Illegal Immigrants) is silly"


Recently someone posted an article about how California winemakers may lose market to other countries if illegals keep getting harassed.

A thought occurred to me that I may start mentioning a lot, if you depend on an illegal foreign workforce to maximize your income, then chances are you are pretty wealthy.

Think about it, the media may have never interviewed the individual Americans that are fighting these foreigners for jobs and housing.

The media always goes to the plant owner, the commercial farmer, the management of a construction conglomerate, and reports their tale of woe.

When I'm talking to a guy that says but if I hire the local citizens it will increase my annual labor costs by a percentage, my reaction is that he isn't a real business man, no matter how rich he is, he is padding his false figures by illegal, under the table practices.

[GOP Poet]

ping

[Cobra64]

"By limiting the number of undocumented workers..."

El Wrongo! Enforcing immigration laws against ILLEGAL ALIENS.

[IslandJeff]

The Invisible Hand always works, like the tide.

Junk minimum wage and pool stuff like Workers Comp into the private sector.

The status quo is madness.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Wait a sec. If wages are going up, maybe these will now be jobs that Americans WILL do.

[glorgau]

"There is not a whole lot of evidence that American citizens are going to step up to take these 12 million jobs.

The first quote in the article is from an immigration attorney. Now there is an un-biased source.