[angkor]

Crux of the problem isn’t “matching willing workers with willing employers”

Example: In the late 70’s myself and lots of other college guys worked summer construction labor at abut $6/hr ($8/hr when I lucked out on a union contract). But there were plenty of family men and others in our crews.

By any measure you use (CPI, Average Wage Rate, inflation, etc), that $6 to $8 an hour would in 2006 dollars be $22 to $28 per hour.

But we know anecdotally that illegals are paid $10 to $16 per hour cash, no taxes.

Employers are getting a 40 to 60 percent discount on general unskilled labor compared to the 70’s.

And that’s where the “insatiable demand” for illegals comes from.

[RKV]

The day we start to prosecute those who employ illegals, this problem will start to get fixed. We have the tools to do it now. Just not the will.

[Rebelbase]

Pfft..Your facts just get in the way of the open borders crowd. In their capitalist minds they have every right to pay lower wages under the table to illegals. The only consequences they are concerned about is getting caught doing it and the country club republican leadership of the past 8 years hasn’t shown much concern in doing that, save for a few high profile “raid” type operations on some larger scale operations recently.

[staytrue]

And that’s where the “insatiable demand” for illegals comes from.

In the 70's, you were part of the baby boom. We are now in a baby bust and that is where the demand for imported labor (legal and illegal) comes from.

[Sgt_Schultze]

This was inevitable. Before there were substantial numbers of women in the workplace, a family could get by with only a single full-time worker. Now, both parents regularly work to pay the bill of the household. Simply, the larger the pool of candidates for a job, the lower the premium one must pay to an employee. Just as when business effectively doubled its worker pool when women entered the workforce, the easiest way to hold down labor costs is to continue to have an expanding labor pool.

[papertyger]

Employers are getting a 40 to 60 percent discount on general unskilled labor compared to the 70’s.

And that’s where the “insatiable demand” for illegals comes from.

This fact is easy to forget for those simplistic morons who thinks unions exist only to preserve the jobs of incompetents.