You are absolutely right. Those who employ illegals are current day slave owners. They are employing labor with limited options and profiting as a result. Any business that relies on a flow of impoverished third world workers to survive is guilty of explotation.
It would be great if all the illegals and their kids stayed home for a day. We would see what a relief it would be to our society to have them all gone home.
“You are absolutely right. Those who employ illegals are current day slave owners. They are employing labor with limited options and profiting as a result.”
No, no, no. That’s absolutely not what I’m saying. People who earn wages and are free to move on to another job are not slaves, no matter what they’re payed. I believe in a free market in labor, and if that means employers “exploit” the “underclass,” or whatever, so be it.
What I’m saying is that people who insist that we need a permanent underclass, imagining them as somehow below the marketplace and not prone to the usual laws of economics, are stupid. We didn’t need slavery, and we don’t need, I don’t even know what to call it. Semi-free labor? Labor is a commodity like anything else. Jobs will get done no matter we have to pay, even if it’s a little more, just like they were done after free slave labor disappeared.
For the record, I don’t care what anyone makes for an honest day’s work. I don’t care if it’s below minimum wage. Whatever they’re willing to work for, that’s the right price. Because they’re free to sell their labor for whatever price they can get, just like employers are free to buy labor for whatever they can get. That’s how it works with everything else, and that’s how it best works with labor. There’s no special government fairy dust that can come in and make everything fair and equal and blah, blah. Whenever anyone’s paid above the market rate, it comes out of something else.
Actually, illegals are better than slaves.
You can hire an illegal for next to nothing only if and whem you need him/her - and you do not need to be responsible for feeding and housing him/her or their family.
Slaves, on the other hand, had a significant up-front cost and you were responsible for housing and feeding them whether they worked or didn't.
So, purely from a financial perspective, an illegal is far more economical.