Immigrants "driving down wages". Is this 'idea' something new or a pattern of the past?

Answer 1

It's relatively new since controlled immigration and the concept of legalising immigration is also relatively new. Were we worried about this fifty years ago? No, because immigrants did not want to emigrate here as badly. Now, with labour becoming increasingly less expensive in other countries, we called in more immigrant workers to help boost the economy in the U.S. (yes, people, it was actually originally produced to boost immigration so that in the long run, the economy would boost), and it actually worked. The only problem now is that corporations are now moving overseas to find cheap labor, or hiring ILLEGAL immigrants for cheap labour, and that's hurting the economy. It's not immigration that's the problem - they have the same expectations and are legally bound to same rule that Americans are bound to when it comes to employment. It's the problem of labour allocation (moving to other "cheaper" countries like China and boosting its economy, instead of our own) and hiring ILLEGAL immigrants. I think we need to stop judging the legal immigrants - they came here for the same reason the original "Americans" came here, to make a better life for themselves and to work for fair wages. Start blaming the employers of illegal immigrants and the corporations that are investing in underdeveloped countries.

Answer 2

While to a given degree this is true. When the free trade agreement was passed, it became cheaper to move a company to China, or Mexico. Wages in countries such as these are low and workers have fewer rights. We buy things from these countries encouraging the practice. Our jobs leave, wages are still higher here than most of the world, so immigrants, come to the land of opportunity. More workers fewer jobs drives down the wages. Eventually probably hundreds of years in the future, wages across the globe will equalize. It's just the rules of Economics in action.

Answer 3

They certainly force wages down, specially in labor sectors that don't require high qualification. There are at least two aspects here:

1) Why should highly qualified people with reasonable incomes have to haul the asses of lazy drop outs? In other words, if a restaurant owner hires a dish washer, he is going to pass that cost to his customers, why should the customers have to pay for some one making $20 if it could be bought for only $5. So, in other words, it is a power struggle for wealth distribution, where under qualified people want some of the wealth produced by more qualified people. Social security might actually be cheaper.

2) The second and more serious aspect about this is that, although you will have to eat at a local restaurant, when you by a manufactured good, you can buy it from elsewhere. If prices are to high due to $20 / hour wages, people will simply buy imported and local industries will have a harder and harder time to keep in business and employing a few highly qualified people. So again, do these people want to haul unqualified asses?

Answer 4

No this isn't new. Right now it is on such a massive scale that it's personally affecting way more people. Business wants to make money. When you have an endless supply of people willing to do the job for less, the wages go down. The working conditions and perks that a company may have offered in the past to draw good employees are cut out. We have basicly an endless supply on the low end and with HB1 visas and such and other countries with more educated people wanting to come here, we have basicly an endless supply of them too. Where we aren't low enough, they simply move the business to a 3rd world country. It used to be that you could atleast care for your family if you had any skill. Then you needed atleast a high school education and if you stuck with a company you could work your way up. Then it required some college. Now that's not even a guarentee anymore. You can work for a company for years and have experience and everything and when they close shop.....you start right back down on the bottom again that is if you can find something and you're not too old or whatever.. People become disposable. Even if you're good at your job and finally start making a decent wage......they can oust you for a cheaper employee. When money is the bottom line, we don't matter. For YEARS we have fought for protections and laws and rules for our work environments. But when you bring in people who don't care about that and aren't going to complain or stand up for their rights or are threatned to be fired if they do......the whole sha-bang takes a nose dive. Business wins but the people loose. The cost of living and taxes and everything else goes up while your wages and job security go south. I can't speak from the top of the totum pole but I've got many years of life experiences of ups and downs to see what's on the agenda. When they can lay a mass amount of people off or close a factory because they say they are bankrupt yet give BILLIONS of dollars to CEO's for their yearly BONUS........somethings wrong. In the old days that CEO would have been fired ...... not get a bonus for failing. You'd get to stay with a company long enough to retire and get your gold watch for dedicated service. Not fired once you got too many raises and there's tons waiting in line to do your job for cheaper.

Answer 5

Is a process called supply and demand. In America we have this system. if there is too much of something the price goes down and if we have a short supply the price goes up. Just like the housing market.
Anybody that finished third grade should know this, but obviously antis do not believe in school and that's why they are competing with illegals for employment. And I know I am going to get reported for this truth.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

It is just now coming to light "bing" in American's brain's. But it is not the wages of immigrant's that bring down the wages of American's, but the ILLEGAL trespasser's, being they work for so little, since they do so little, because their skills are little.
Most REAL immigrant's come with skills, and an education, and are assets to themselves and America.

Answer 8

Sure they are. Use that argument if illegals can only make a dollar a day in Mexico and 5 dollars here want theyundercut anybody on the wage market. It's proven time and time again illegal aliens depress the wage wages and jobs.

Answer 9

Nothing NEW and I doubt a pattern of the past.

Hardworking people are a reward to many employers.

Enough said.

Answer 10

I'd worry more about the government driving down the value of the American dollar. When Nixon took us off the gold standard it took $32.00 to buy an ounce of gold (a standard) We went to a floating dollar that sank like the Titanic. It now takes almost $600.00 to buy one ounce of gold. One once of gold will get you 300 gal of gasoline today. When Nixon was in office one once of gold would get you only 95 gal of gasoline. The more they print, the less you can buy, thank the dumb American voters.