tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655683135628692725.post1454888907287825782..comments2024-03-29T02:30:11.538-07:00Comments on Mike's Bogota Blog: Paulina Takes on The DonaldMiguelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388030533444193686noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655683135628692725.post-16589194918074661612015-07-06T21:33:36.095-07:002015-07-06T21:33:36.095-07:00Hi Coolcoil,
Thanks for your comment and good po...Hi Coolcoil, <br /><br />Thanks for your comment and good points. I guess that it's a judgement call. I lived in a poor Mississippi city with sky-high unemployment, and yet heard stories about Mexican immigrants working on nearby farms. I'm sure that those farmowners would have preferred to employ native-born Americans, and even paid them more because of language and to save immigration staus headaches, but evidently the Americans weren't interested even for those wages. Of course, if the farms/factories/slaughterhouses paid a lot more, then native-born Americans would line up for those jobs, but then their products would cost a lot more, too. <br /><br />It's very true that cheap labor, whether in the form of immigrants, child labor or mechanization, presses down wages and enriches the plutocrats. But there are also strong arguments that immigrants, by generatng more GDP, opening new businesses, etc, strengthen the economy for everybody. <br /><br />Another argument I'll throw out is that, if not for cheap immigrant labor, some jobs will be mechanized out of existence while others will be exported to cheap labor nations like China and Mexico. <br /><br />But in the end I generally agree with your points about immigration, wages and profit.<br /><br />MikeMiguelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15388030533444193686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655683135628692725.post-86720560808324970802015-07-06T05:27:53.190-07:002015-07-06T05:27:53.190-07:00I take issue with your statement that immigrants d...I take issue with your statement that immigrants do work that US citizens will not do. In fact, US citizens will do the work, just not at the very low compensation that immigrants will accept.<br /><br />Even studies that claim that overall US income is increased by low wage immigration acknowledge that low-skill US citizens are hurt by low-skill immigration. The purported increase in income comes from upper middle class households that can now afford to hire domestic help (directly or indirectly) at low cost, which allows them to work more hours.<br /><br />I'm in favor of immigration, but not uncontrolled immigration. Trump's comments went way too far, but others who claim that 99.99% population of illegal immigrants consist of law-abiding hard workers are just as far off. By allowing uncontrolled immigration, the US has made the country less safe and made life harder for those on the lowest rungs of society.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03362624519070373422noreply@blogger.com