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Old 07-27-2023, 07:12 PM
 
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So what you are saying cheap labor is good....I guess that is why China uses free prison labor? Or countries like Bangladesh and India pay slave labor wages because its good for their economy.
That cheap labor isn't so cheap when you factor in the over $100 billion a year that illegal aliens costs us. The only ones who benefit from them are the greedy employers who hire them while the rest of us get the shaft in so many ways.
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Old 07-27-2023, 11:15 PM
 
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I hear it’s 150 billion now.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ill...tudy-finds.amp

This doesn’t factor in things like the increase in the cost of housing.

Corporate America and other business elites/interests might as well as have their own bill of rights, laws and constitution. The people relegated to serfdom, as a large lower caste.

America has enough people already. Small worker visa program is all we need.
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Old 07-28-2023, 05:51 AM
 
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I hear it’s 150 billion now.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ill...tudy-finds.amp

This doesn’t factor in things like the increase in the cost of housing.

Corporate America and other business elites/interests might as well as have their own bill of rights, laws and constitution. The people relegated to serfdom, as a large lower caste.

America has enough people already. Small worker visa program is all we need.
The only ones we should be providing visas for are for necessary jobs that pay a liveable wage where there might be a shortage of American workers. We don't need more burger flippers and leaf blowers, etc. There are far too many low paying, unnecessary jobs in this country. Construction businesses are the worse offenders. Those jobs used to pay a decent wage to Americans but now they are flooded with cheap, illegal workers.
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Old 07-28-2023, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Northwest Peninsula
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That cheap labor isn't so cheap when you factor in the over $100 billion a year that illegal aliens costs us. The only ones who benefit from them are the greedy employers who hire them while the rest of us get the shaft in so many ways.
That is why an E-verify system should be a national requirement.
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Old 07-28-2023, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Oregon, formerly Texas
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If there are so many illegal workers, how is it we have such a labor shortage?
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Old 07-29-2023, 12:00 AM
 
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If there are so many illegal workers, how is it we have such a labor shortage?
Propaganda, “ghost jobs” etc..
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Old 07-29-2023, 08:32 AM
 
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However you want to characterize it. If you have to pay your restaurant staff $20 an hour each, it's going to cost people more to eat there.
If you pay them too little you`ll be hiring new staff more often than you`d like and the taxpayers may have to pay for the employee`s SNAP benefits.
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Old 07-29-2023, 10:34 AM
 
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However you want to characterize it. If you have to pay your restaurant staff $20 an hour each, it's going to cost people more to eat there.
True...I went out to lunch yesterday and it cost over $40...for lunch, fish and chips and two beers.

But why isn't the influx of illegal alien driving down the wages....or is it the government driving up the wages?
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Old 07-29-2023, 10:40 AM
 
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Propaganda, “ghost jobs” etc..
Propaganda??? really, have you noticed most fast food restaurants have help wanted signs. Some restaurants are limiting their hours because they can find help. My question is when school let out why hasn't those students applying for open jobs. I am guessing video games and some plain laziness has some to do with it.
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Old 07-29-2023, 11:29 AM
 
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True...I went out to lunch yesterday and it cost over $40...for lunch, fish and chips and two beers.

But why isn't the influx of illegal alien driving down the wages....or is it the government driving up the wages?
Those who claim that illegals keep prices down are full of it. Nothing is cheaper including new housing where a lot of them work in construction.
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