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In the latest Harvard/Harris Poll, about 48 percent of Americans say increased illegal immigration to the U.S. reduces wages for workers, agreeing with decades of data that indicates mass immigration's crushing impact on Americans' wages.
Only 10 percent of Americans say illegal immigration increases U.S. wages while 42 percent say illegal immigration doesn't impact wages.
About 73 percent of supporters of President Trump's say illegal immigration reduces wages for Americans. Another nearly 60 percent of Americans living in rural regions of the country say illegal immigration reduces U.S. wages.
As Breitbart News reported, a whistleblower in the California construction industry says American workers were once offered a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the late 1980s. Fast-forward to 2018 - nearly two decades into when illegal aliens began flooding the industry - wages have fallen by more than half, standing at just $11 an hour.
With Trump's tightened labor market, there has been history-making wage growth for American workers in the construction industry, the garment industry, for workers employed at small businesses, black Americans, and restaurant workers.
The tight labor market has also secured higher wages for overtime workers and high-paying, coveted white collar jobs for American teenagers. Most recently, Breitbart News reported how the construction industry has had to recruit women to take jobs at higher wages rather than hiring illegal aliens. A Chick-Fil-A in California even raised wages to $18 an hour to retain workers.
Labor data does not accurately explain the wage growth in pockets of blue-collar industries that Americans across the U.S. have experienced due to the Trump administration's stricter immigration enforcement. This is largely due to the fact that labor data does not break down wage growth by occupation and industry.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Now a skilled worker makes $15....
He would hire illegals as unskilled laborers. They would stand on nthe corner in giant mobs in the morning, all you had to do was pull your truck over and they would all race to get in the bed first! They are usually great workers. The white American dudes didn't want the laborer jobs and were nothing but trouble most of the time. So we had usually half and half crews.
Yes, the wages were killed by hispanic immigrants, all willing to do the job for 1/2 the money. They are NOT to blame though, and were/are some of the best men I have ever known.
The USSA is to blame for keeping Mexico and the rest 3rd world. Mexico is basically an unacknowledged extension of the USSA. There is ABSOLUTELY zero reason Mexico is the way it is , its done on purpose. The WAR ON DRUGS was partly to keep Mexico tha way it is, Corrupt to the cor
The difference between Mexico and the USSA is Mexico is not so covert about its corruption. You can pay off a cop in Mexico who is harassing you 200 pesos and you're done, problem solved.
In the USSA this is a NO NO. Instead you get shaken down by it's JUDGES who 100% of the time side with law enforcement,and extort you for hundreds to thousands of dollars for the same minor infractions.