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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10,000,000 people is a drop in the bucket.[/quote]
 Not when they are concentrated in a few industries. But why not answer the question?[/quote]

Wages will rise due to demand and more native born Americans will work those jobs.[/quote]

OMG, I am so sick of this stupidity. Every time that has been attempted, it has failed. Americans will start the job and quit the next day. Ask dairy farmers in Wisconsin. They couldn't raise their wages enough. People still quit. We don't want to pick fruit or work in chicken factories no matter how much you pay them.

We need to go back to the 70s when Mexicans crossed the border to work then went back home. Then we made it too difficult to do this and they stayed. We need migrant workers.[/quote]

When was this ever attempted at scale?

My dad owned a landscaping company and employed illegal laborers. He tried hiring Americans but yeah, they never worked out. Never wanted to do the work. He could not find willing workers even when paying a slightly higher rate. If he paid a much higher wage, maybe he could have found people, but then he couldn’t stay in business because his competitors would undercut him by hiring illegals.

If we remove the illegals, then that levels the playing field. Prices will need to increase. Some industries will survive and others won’t.

If a business produces an important product that is in strong demand, like meat, people will continue to buy it because it is high value, and they will sacrifice other purchases in order to afford it.

If a business produces a product that is more discretionary, like pedicures, then they might not survive, since customers are now spending higher percentages of their income on groceries. They won’t have money left over for Amazon junk, pedicures, or house cleaners. That is OK. [/quote]

Landscaping services are far from affordable despite widespread use of undocumented workers.  If there is shortage, then what’s likely going to happen is self-employed young men will be doing this work (It’s becoming popular as a side business with HS and college guys) for a fee that would take the middle man (owner) out of equation.  The prices will stay the same. Self employed handymen, carpenters, plumbers, landscapers are already out there.  I may suck for private equity company buying mom and pop landscaping and other skilled labor business to hike up prices and make profits running them to the ground.  It may suck for greedier business owners who want cheapest possible labor while billing prices to the customers as if they are employing college grads from top schools.

Truth is trades companies bill diff prices depending on the neighborhood and how much loose disposable income customers tend to have vs. having set prices based on job difficulty and duration.  If this model falls apart, I won’t be crying. [/quote]

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