You are really missing basics here. If employers have to cut low-skill workers because the government has forced their labor costs up, then that business will not be able to offer the same services at the same cost to its customers. Wealthy customers no doubt will still be able to afford whatever, if the business manages to stay open, but lower-income customers likely won’t. And, of course, those low-skill workers may end up on the dole rather than employed at all.
The answer is to kick all the illegals home so there is less labor competition driving down labor prices, but also less need to tax everyone to cover their costs for decades to come. So even if prices go up then, taxpayer/consumers will still come out ahead.
Sure, some economic adjustments from that, but far healthier for the country and its rightful residents.
I get it. I was 3 credits short of a minor in economics. I majored in Computer Science. I am not economically ignorant. But the labor situation in the USA has been manipulated by artificial/political means. The labor supply at both the upper and lower skill levels is greater than demand because both parties let it happen, both wanted it and forced it on us again the will of the working class which I am a part of.
So you can't apply totally free market principals to an unfree artificial manipulated labor situation. This is all I am saying. Please think and not react with dogma. The floor on wages is artificial and I get it. But deal with it. The whole thing is artificial....