Snowbama says illegals have rights to fair wages too

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Originally Posted by spence

I think the point is that US Law requires fair pay and doesn't discriminate based on status. This is probably important so that employers have even more legal pressure not to run sweat shops with poorly paid illegal workers.

Making people aware of this puts more pressure on employers, and if employers can't pay illegal workers any less perhaps they have less incentive to hire them in the first place for those jobs Americans are willing to take. I'd note that in some industries (like agriculture) I believe that illegal workers are actually compensated pretty well because their output is so high. Some areas have shortages of illegal workers during peak seasons.

Given global trends for population declines, there will be even more competition in the coming for good immigrant labor in the future.

Today people are calling to kick them all out, but get ready, in a few decades we might actually be trying to lure more of them in.

-spence

Do you remember when the uproar occurred when Dona Karan of New York was taken to task because her Mexico factories paid substandard wages. The liberal gliterati was in an uproar. It hilarious now how many of those same people hire the illegal alien to do their lawns and nanny their kids and dont pay taxes on their wages because the illegals don't have SS #'s. The same hypocrites that that thought it was awful in the 80's with DKNY wages now hire all the same people.