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  • Wouldn’t it be in everyone’s best interest to make those workers legal and pay them a fair wage? They’re already doing the job, so if they’re bad at it and not worth the wage increase to the business owner, wouldn’t that mean other people could now out compete the immigrants for those same jobs?

    Doing this would avoid a sudden labor market upset, extend amnesty to the businesses AND their underpaid employees (avoiding violence and suffering for everyone involved), guarantee a fair wage for all the workers involved (current and future), and make those positions competitive on the market.

    The only downside is an increase in prices which is going to happen in every other case anyway.


  • All of that is in the realm of “hopefully” and none of it is in the realm of “will happen because a law says it must.”

    If citizenry is the magic spell that makes employees pay people more money, why not make all the undocumented citizens with jobs citizens?

    Creating a sudden and violent work shortage across a large swath of industries sounds like blowing a hole in the country’s foot when the requested results is just a few dollars higher wages. Why not make those industries pay higher wages by law? You could even mandate that those industries verify citizenship before hiring new people if you really wanted to, and provide a path to citizenship for the people who are already here and proving they can do a job and pay taxes.

    Paying more wages is going to raise prices in either case, why choose to leave positive outcomes to chance when lawmakers can literally mandate the positive outcomes.