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Ask yourself why they willingly leave their home, endure a dangerous illegal migration, and live in a foreign country doing hard labor.
Because it's better than the conditions in their home country. If you lock them out you aren't helping them, you're forcing them to live in even worse conditions that they want to escape. If there was economic opportunity and safety closer to their home they wouldn't be coming all the way to the US.
If you want to actually improve work conditions, we need to help poorer/less developed countries stablize themselves and build a local economy. If people are happy and safe in their home countries then they won't feel the need to go through illegal migration.
The problem is working with foreign governments is not an easy job and takes a long time. Cutting off immigration is a massive short term change that will only make things worse.
The US? But I'm all for improving the work conditions at the source country, I'm just improving much if the company at my local area decides to replace us with immigrant workers to save on money and worker demands. Now the local workers are out of job. Not something most want to do out of solidarity.
and now we are going in circles.
Economists say immigration, legal or illegal, doesn't hurt American workers.
immigrants do not really make unemployment go up or wages go down. More often than not, there is no detectable effect.
Most economists agree that in spite of being a very big part of the labor force, immigrants have not come at the cost either of American jobs, nor of American wages
the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers is very small. “If anything,”
Economy and labor experts told PolitiFact immigrants who recently crossed the U.S. border likely aren’t taking Michigan’s union jobs. Instead, newly arrived migrants are likelier to work in jobs Americans don’t want to do, such as day laborer positions. These aren’t union jobs.
The panel of economists found “little evidence that immigration significantly affects” overall employment levels among Americans, they wrote for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine