Wages aren’t up enough to justify the need for more immigrants. Plus it’s not like illegal immigration has been massively reduced either. I’ll wait and see what Trump actually does over what he said though.
It seems for most Republicans wages can never be low enough.
But they are up enough for the Fed to spring into action to slow the economy, suppress wage growth and fight the dreaded inflation. I've observed over many years that nothing sets the Fed off like increasing pay for hourly and other lower earners in the US. They act as if rising wages are the only cause of inflation.
I'm highly skeptical of all these claimed labor shortages. We still have real, real unemployment that approaches 20% when all the able bodied on welfare and other government, anti-poverty programs are considered.
We need serious welfare to work programs, and real assessments of the supply and demand for labor before we start bringing in even more immigrants to suppress wages and fill job openings based on the claims of the industries that benefit from suppressed salaries and wages.