"And then there is the lower wage that the immigrants will work for, as opposed to paying the higher wage of American workers."
It is all about the lower wages. All jobs are shit jobs to an extent and the more of a shit job it is, the more you have to pay people to do it. The shit job part could be working in the sun all day or it could be requiring 8 years of school before you are allowed to do it.
As such, I simply do not believe that you cannot attract workers AT ANY PRICE for these jobs. That is a straight up lie. The correct sentence is that "you cannot attract US workers at the low wages that illegals are willing to accept"
"So, as your current alias' comment seems to say, that the issue is the companies' hiring practices, and the reasons behind those hiring practices, and not the immigrants.
#29 | Posted by LampLighter"
It is both - but largely, a problem caused by the US government. Wisconsin dairy farmers used US workers to milk cows for 200 years before this flood of illegals. There were no milk shortages or cows dying in fields due to the lack of illegal workers. So, what changed?
What changed is after the first farmer started using illegals - and there was no immediate government crackdown - that farmers started to make way higher profits and started to drive his competition out of the market. So what happened next, well, another farmer did the same thing to complete because they didn't go out of business. It was the exact same cycle that happened with the Chinese off-shoring since the 1990's. The US government sat on their hands because they are more or less payed off by the people that first adopted the illegal practices because they made all the money. They bought off the chamber of commerce and the local police so their supply of illegals would continue to flood into the country and their illegals would not be stopped and deported for driving without a license or insurance.
And it was BOTH parties. Back in the 90's, the Democrats were slightly better because they still fought for unions and unions hate illegal workers BECAUSE THEY SUPPRESS WAGES - especially in the building trades. As for the GOP - it was controlled by the rich 1% and globalist/corporatists and they worked on behalf of the rich farmers that started bringing in the illegals.
This has now 100% flipped as MAGA is the party of the working class and the Dems want illegals for their votes and to skew the census for blue states AND they are now the party controlled by the 1%.
Who loses out? Unskilled American and disproportionately black Americans. But the reality is that it hurts ALL Americans.