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The working class pays the cost of migration by lower wages and competition with migrants for housing, education, and welfare benefits.

Third, The narrative is they lower wages, take up public resources, and live in homes that could be occupied by Americans.[/quote]
Do you have an equivalent study with actual data to demonstrate these points? Or did you simply pull them from your rectum?[/quote]

RealtyChek economist Alan Tonelson recently published findings comparing 2024 and 2025 wage trends that show that the decrease in illegal hiring this year has led to increased wages across many working-class industries that heavily hire illegal workers.
 
Tonelson concludes:

[i]“These findings, of course, conform entirely with the uncontroversial idea that, all else equal, when the supply of anything (including people) grows faster than the demand, the price of that thing tends to fall.”[/i]

and

[i]"The above figures don’t mean that nothing about the Trump deportation policies can be legitimately criticized.  But they certainly make clear that exempting non-criminal illegal aliens from immigration crackdowns will be doing a major injustice to a huge number of legally resident Americans.  "[/i]

[b]Congress can expand upon this trend of increasing wages for the working class and decreasing inequality by passing E-Verify legislation.
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https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/whats-left-of-our-economy-illegal-alien-workers-are-indeed-suppressing-lots-of-u-s-wages/[/quote]

Interesting. This opinion piece by the Wall Street Journal editorial board suggests that e-verify laws are harmful to the economy.

The article says that by passing a law that employers with 25 or more employees have to use e-verify, Florida lost a lot of workers and has fallen in record job growth,

“U.S. Labor Department data suggest that Florida’s E-Verify law has harmed job growth. In the year before the law took effect, Florida led the country in job creation. But employment growth fell by half in 2024 and has been flat since last February.”

The areas where job losses have been felt most acutely are construction, hospitality, and farm work.

“There’s little evidence that undocumented migrants are taking jobs from Americans. The reality is that employers can’t find enough Americans willing to work in the fields or hang drywall, even at attractive wages. Farm hands in Florida who work year-round earn roughly $47,000, which is more than what some young college graduates earn.

Republicans who want every illegal worker deported cite the rule of law, but they also decline to allow legal pathways to work in the U.S. There are human and economic costs to all this, and Florida’s campaign threatens to mar Mr. DeSantis’s impressive economic record. The lesson for President Trump is that businesses can’t grow if government takes away their workers. ”

Excerpt From
“Opinion | Mass Deportation and Florida Jobs”
The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/AO92x0CJjS2e7UMWtouI5tw

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