There are plenty of workers, they just want to pay less.
winner winner chicken dinner!
problem is, once the illegals become legal.. they tend to want the same amounts the rest of us do, or they just sign up for a spot on the tit.
You hit the nail on the head.
What f___ing BS!!!! High tech companies want techno coolies to do work that US college tech grads will do (but at 1/3 salary). Computer World just did an article about techno coolies hired by Silicon Valley firms. If we truly have a shortage of tech workers, then let us do it by the free market way and not sponsor H-1B fraught with indenture conditions. Example, if we need tech skill A, then let us immigrate tech skill A people. Let that immigrant throw out his resume listing the badly needed skills and let the American firms make offers to hire him. That is not how corporate America wants it done. They want H-1 applicants. The process works like this. Google secures 100 H-1 VISA. Google HR calls their handlers in China and ask them to recruit 100 Chinese IT workers for a fee. The Chinese handlers fill the 100 slots with Chinese tech workers by offering to do their paperwork to come to the US. In return they work for the US company on the H-1B application for seven years at a salary that is 1/3 of US worker he will replace. During those seven years, the Chinese worker cannot take better offers and jump companies. The Chinese worker is told make their American employer happy and do not ever get fired before the 7 year term is up, otherwise someone in his family in China owes the handlers for the application costs. Debt collectors will come to family home with hammers (ie someone will have his legs broken). That is H-1B in a nutshell. The US already is paying for the fact they did not learn how to pick their own cotton, now US software companies are repeating history with their own version of slavery. For free trading freepers remember this when the PLA builds high tech weapons and sink the ship that your son or grandson is serving on. Wonder how they learn to make such good electronics and the software that guides it??? Corporate capitalist bastards.
There are plenty of workers, they just want to pay less.
Yes, but it will backfire.
They will be given citizenship or some status that gives the the rights of citizenship.
So what then?
With that status, they will go on welfare, or a significant number of them will, and that will keep the labor pool undersized just as it is now.
There are two things that will cure the labor problem.
Get the government out of education so kids can learn.
And cut welfare off for every single person now on it other than those that are truly incapable of work...mentally handicapped, physically handicapped...such as stroke victims, heart cases, smashed up in crashes, etc.
“There are plenty of workers, they just want to pay less.”
Exactly.
While it is a matter of policy to inflate away the value of wages.