Posted on 09/03/2025 4:37:55 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
A new tally by Pew Research indicates that as many as 1.5 million immigrants have left the U.S. so far this year.
According to Axios, there are anecdotal reports of labor shortages in industries that are notorious for employing illegal labor: caregiving, agriculture, and meatpacking. Immigrants are declining as a share of the labor force — from 20 percent last year to 19 percent this June, a decrease of 750,000 workers.
Some of this number is due to deportations, but an enormous share are illegal immigrants who are reading the writing on the wall: namely, that the law is being enforced.
Much of the job growth in the United States under the Biden administration reflected the illegal immigrant surge. Achieving growth this way has deleterious effects on the wages of low-skilled native workers, and deranging political effects. Illegal labor is in effect a different pool of labor, one less likely to call the cops about illegal work conditions.
Employers who are denied illegal labor are more likely to raise wages or invest in productivity-enhancing automation that actually translates into long-term lower prices and standard-of-living increases for the rest of us.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Most current edition from the press’s “The Mexicans Are Going Home” stories cache.
It’s a start: multiply the number by. 10 and then you’re talking.
This is what I voted for
The National Review can’t do its own research?
Lot of people do not even want to stay in the USA. They come, live as cheaply as they can, there men taking turns in sharing one bed. Work hard, save money and leave.
It makes them rich in their CofO.
Those are probably first to leave, when they get the message that they are not welcome here.
Anyway 10% there.
Then it will also be spectacular.
Self deportation indicates they were not refugees in fear for their lives. We need to stop this invasion in its tracks. They should seek to better their lives in their own countries. We should not be forced to succumb to this insane onslaught of people we can’t afford and who aren’t actually refugees. The front door is where visitors, guests and family arrive, not over the fence in your backyard.
Best solution all around for the individuals involved. They get off the radar screen, and they have the option of applying for official entry once they have returned to their home country.
No foul, no harm.
Of course, it might take them ten years or more before they manage the return, but their intentions will be both well examined and the patience rewarded.
The leeches will be harder to shake loose.
“Employers who are denied illegal labor are more likely to raise wages or invest in productivity-enhancing automation that actually translates into long-term lower prices”
That is the key. They will have to pay a fair American wage.
to legal workers. Knowing they can’t dramatically increase prices, the rich won’t get rich as fast!
I really like the automation, as I’m one of the people that designed and produced it. With very few exceptions most work can be automated.
The one thing that bothers me is what do we do with all our
redundant idiots?
There is a “Bell” curve on human intelligence.
Most people are not on the moderate or high
intelligence part of that curve.
WHEN SECTION 8 SCREENINGS/AUDITS ARE COMPLETE-—ADD ALOT MORE.
I'd have to multiply it by 4-to-6 to feel that the job is getting done...
Nevertheless, I continue to hear Spanish spoken almost exclusively at home construction sights near me (Central Florida).
We were recently in Colorado and New Mexico. We saw several trucks and vans filled with Hispanic families and lots of worldly good headed south.
That’s what I voted for.
Singapore discovered this in the 1970s. Repeat offenders were even caned before they were deported. Permanent scars on your backside are a good incentive not to repeat.
The end result was that Singapore catapulted from a third world backwater into a first world country in less than a generation.
For the love of god, would people please say ‘illegal immigrants?’
What the gell is a migrant? Context is everything.
Legal immigrants are welcome, obviously.
WINNING!
MORE ICE PLEASE!!!!
If we don’t know precisely how many illegals came into the country, how do we know precisely how many have left?
I voted for this!
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