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In the short term, this will hurt sectors of the economy, but in the long term, won’t this raise wages for pretty much everyone in the blue states / cities they focus on?
How? He's attacking minimum wage jobs.
Immigrants are part of what makes our country great, so don’t misread me here, but by getting rid of illegal immigrants it would force folks who skirt employment laws and wage laws,
Those folks would still need workers and would have to pay a lot more for their labor…
If there is suddenly a 5% loss or whatever the number of illegal immigrants in that sector or what not, employers will have to compete a lot more for the workers….
Wages would go up for all.
If you do it randomly and all at once, it can really hurt a bunch of sectors of the economy… but over time those sectors will figure how to make it work and the blue states in this scenario will be doing even better than they already are now compared to red states
Edit: I actually got this idea from Bernie
I didn't downvote you but in general it's just going to kill industries and make shit more expensive.
That’s why we need real immigration reform. Illegal workers getting paid unfair wages really is a big problem that is bringing down wages for all