What is wrong with wages being higher? Should American workers be poor?
With that in mind, the demand for illegal labor is doing nothing but stalling true American progress.
Read the rest of the post instead of cherry picking one statement.
If wages become artificially high due to too tight of a labor market it makes it so that the products those workers create become to costly for people to buy.
It causes too much inflation and while it helps a very small portion of the population that is receiving those wages, it harms many more people than it helps.
I don't believe that we should allow unlimited immigration.
I do believe that we should make it so that employers should have to first try and find an American worker to fill a job before hiring someone in a guest worker program.
If there is a pool of available American workers, yet the employer is trying to hire immigrants because none of the Americans are willing to do that job for that wage, then they are not trying to hire American workers.
This is something they can detect and have detected in other VISA programs, such as the H1B technology VISAs.
The key to any work visa program is matching immigrant workers with necessary skills with job openings in a competitive market.
However, we first need to enforce our immigration laws, or it's pointless.
Of course they should. They should have their guts stomped out without so much as a moment's hesitation. Don't you remember how much we hate working Americans on FR? Shame on you. They are not merely primitive, they are positively feral. They do not deserve to live, except as slaves for the Fortune 500 corporations (the only real Americans, as it turns out).
/sarcasm
Seems to be the current rallying cry lately. In some circles, companies such as Costco take heat because they are "too good" to their employees.