You could simply document the immigrants and incorporate them into large labor coalitions auctioning their work at market rates.
Instead, we have a system of paying workers under-the-table at below market rates, while using their illegal status as leverage to prevent them from negotiating for better pay.
So you need a legal system for migration before you can get higher wages and worker protections. Otherwise, you’ll always have a reserve army of scabs in the form of undocumented residents.
What is it, do you guys want higher wages and worker protections? Or undocumented immigrants? Pick one.
You could simply document the immigrants and incorporate them into large labor coalitions auctioning their work at market rates.
Instead, we have a system of paying workers under-the-table at below market rates, while using their illegal status as leverage to prevent them from negotiating for better pay.
So you need a legal system for migration before you can get higher wages and worker protections. Otherwise, you’ll always have a reserve army of scabs in the form of undocumented residents.
This is by design
Don’t migrants tend to get exploited and end up doing the crap jobs that nobody else is willing to do but need to be done anyway?
I just find humor in the hypocrisy of Republicans. Especially when it inevitably backfires on them.