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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (321451)1/17/2007 7:27:30 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1573984
 
re: Do you think we can get rid of 10 million + illegals?

Not all, but most. If we enforce the laws about employing illegals, with very significant penalties for employers, then the (unemployed) illegals will find their way back to their home countries. They made it here without the pay that they receive in the US; certainly they can make it home.

re: Your right that the illegal (and to a lesser extent low skilled legal) immigrants do increase the supply of low skilled labor. They increase the demand for such labor too (they demand the goods and services produced by low skilled labor) but probably by a much smaller amount, so its extremely likely that they reduce the clearing price for low skilled labor.

By a lot. And they reduce the wages of positions above low skilled labor. If you disagree we can discuss.

re: That's perhaps an important issue, but it doesn't provide an argument for the federal government being able to properly set an appropriate price for low skilled labor

It addresses the need for a minimum wage as an imperfect solution. It wouldn't be an issue if there was real competition for those tough jobs.

re: and it doesn't address any of the other points of the blog post or the comment

Never intended it to. I could go back but I'm content discussing this one point.
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