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Illegal Immigration Crushes American’s Wages
By Paul Ebeling on July 1, 2018
In the latest Harvard/Harris Poll, about 48% of Americans say increased illegal immigration to the US reduces wages for workers, agreeing with decades of data that indicates mass immigration’s crushing impact on Americans’ wages.
Just 10% of Americans say illegal immigration increases US wages while 42% say illegal immigration does not impact wages.
About 73% of supporters of President Trump’s say illegal immigration reduces wages for Americans. Another nearly 60% of Americans living in rural regions of the country say illegal immigration reduces US wages.
As reported, a whistleblower in the California construction industry says American workers were once offered a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the late 1980’s.
Now, fast-forward to Y 2018, nearly 20 years into when illegal aliens began flooding the industry — wages have fallen by more than 50%, standing at just $11/hour.
With President Trump’s tightened labor market, there has been history-making wage growth for American workers in the construction industry, the garment industry, for workers employed at small businesses, Black Americans, and restaurant workers.
The tight labor market has also secured higher wages for overtime workers and high-paying, coveted white collar jobs for American teenagers.
Most recently, it was reported how the construction industry has had to recruit women to take jobs at higher wages rather than hiring illegal aliens.
A Chick-Fil-A in California even raised wages to $18 an hour to retain workers.
Labor data does not accurately explain the wage growth in pockets of blue-collar industries that Americans across the US have experienced due to The Trump Administration’s stricter immigration enforcement. This is largely due to the fact that labor data does not break down wage growth by occupation and industry.
By John Binder
Paul Ebeling, Editor
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