It does keep wages down on a lot of blue collar manual labor jobs. That’s about it, but that does happen with a certainty. I used to work new construction housing. Framers, drywallers, cement layers, and roofers etc either work for less money, or end up not working because the company with Mexican laborors making $5+ an hour less underbids everyone else and the “builder” subcontracts out to that operation.
It’s why so many of those laborors don’t want immigrants. They see it directly effecting them, while so many others are completely ok with immigrants. It doesn’t effect most other people’s paycheck and it doesn’t raise prices of anything they buy.
Also, many of those guys (the immigrants) aren’t trying to support and care for families in the US. They have families they’re supporting in Mexico and the guys up here working house themselves up cramped and send money down to their families. Exploitation or not, because the US dollar still goes much further down in Mexico than it does here in the US, they’re able to make less and still support their families well.
It does keep wages down on a lot of blue collar manual labor jobs. That’s about it, but that does happen with a certainty. I used to work new construction housing. Framers, drywallers, cement layers, and roofers etc either work for less money, or end up not working because the company with Mexican laborors making $5+ an hour less underbids everyone else and the “builder” subcontracts out to that operation.
It’s why so many of those laborors don’t want immigrants. They see it directly effecting them, while so many others are completely ok with immigrants. It doesn’t effect most other people’s paycheck and it doesn’t raise prices of anything they buy.
The immigrants didn’t ask for 5$ less.
It is the company owner who abuses the immigrant’s legal status to pay them 5$ less.
Does that knowledge make any of the workers more?
Also, many of those guys (the immigrants) aren’t trying to support and care for families in the US. They have families they’re supporting in Mexico and the guys up here working house themselves up cramped and send money down to their families. Exploitation or not, because the US dollar still goes much further down in Mexico than it does here in the US, they’re able to make less and still support their families well.