What do you believe: that legalizing the immigrates will overall boost wages, or decrease them?
However, I am wondering if legalization would mean corporations will then lower their overall starting salaries for all, or will legalization allow once illegal aliens to move into different positions and actually boost productivity and wages?
I tend to believe that wages will go down, but I am unsure. Thanks for any input!
Answer:
I don't think it will go down, since most corporations are now looking for someone with higher education. High school degree is no longer sufficient for most corporations, unless one plans to work for fastfood restaurants or retail. So what really affects increase in wages is education. I think the immigration bill would only affect sweat shops which employ illegal immigrants (Asians, Hispanics, etc.). Matter of fact, allowing illegal immigrants become legal will help the taxpayers now that former illegal immigrants being paid under the table will be paying their taxes too. And those companies who employ illegal immigrants will now be forced to pay insurance and taxes. So overall, it'll be good for the economy. Although I hope the government will be caution to give citizenship to criminals from other countries.
I think wages will decline. If you don't like the wages, they will hire some immigrant who will be happy to work for lower wages.
If wages were going to increase you would see companies pitching a fit, congress would be overflowing with companies trying to stop this bill and Pres Bush would NOT be for it because it would hurt big business. The new "citizens" will of course be paid minimum wage as per our current laws.
Here's the thing. Theoretically if we had inflow stopped or limited and mangaged going forward, it would raise them from where they are NOW but not to where they were before these people entered the work force, for a decade. However, even with the 'deal' they are considering to fund a quarter of the fence and border patrol required for the bill, they are not requiring the overdue visa tracking system to be in place, which is needed. Also their idea of a trade off is that this would allow 500,000 more to come in above current visa limits immediately and when 'triggers' (minimal) are met a huge agriculture and other 'temporary' work force as well. And remember that lack of visa tracking? How many will leave?
Isolate legalization and put in protections and you have one picture. But this bill is a disaster.
Clearly "legalizing" illegal immigrants will require paying them "legal wages" This will cause a glut in the market for legal wage earners, and the average pay for low-paying jobs will decrease.
Another influx of illegal immigrants will necessarily come to replace the workers who had to leave their less-than-legal-wage jobs.
I think wages will stay the same. Everyone will have to be paid the same. Employers would no longer be advantaged by hiring illegals, so would not hire them. They will become unemployed and would then be eligible to receive tax paid programs, raising our taxes and resulting in less take home pay for us and a bigger welfare state.
They'll lose jobs for the other illegals who will come in for lower wages...and then we'll just have to add them to the already abused overburdened welfare system.
They will definitely lower wages, because they are willing to work cheaper, so an employer is going to hire them, instead of somebody that wants more money.
I like what you called them," Immigrates".
Actually what will happen is we will suddenly have a bunch of unemployed former illegal aliens. Why? Because the benefit of hiring them is that before they were legal, they could be paid the lower wages with no issues. That is the entire reason they were being hired over legal American Citizens and Legal immigrants. What is going to be the sudden benefit to the industries if suddenly they have to BY LAW pay the very people they hired to pay lower wages, thus having more employees, higher wages? So they will hire fewer people, thus the ones that were working here illegally will suddenly find themselves without a job.
Again, no one thinks through the repercussions of violating the law. They are there for a reason, though some of the short sighted seem to think otherwise.
There is always going to be an economic underclass.
Corporations who have a glut of potential employees will always find ways around employment laws.
That old friend, part time employment, will always be around.
Remember: you don't have to abide by the minimum wage if your employee is a part time worker.
The glut of workers, legal or not, is always a bad thing for wages.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith
becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated
on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage
to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American,
and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag..
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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