Doesn't increasing the supply of unskilled labor cheapen its price,
especially as the demand for unskilled labor is sinking? What do we do about
that? Does emigration hurt the source countries?
I really don't know the answers to these questions; I'm really trying to
provoke serious discussion.
Doug
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On Wed, 19 Oct 1994, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Surely the issue is the fact that the undocumented workers have no
> rights. If the bosses have access to a group of workers who don't have the
> right to organize, report violations of safety laws, etc., this will
> create an opportunity to drive down wages and degrade working
> conditions.
>
> THe solution then is to extend these rights to the undocumented.
>
> 1) Shift all the burden of enforcing immigration laws to the employers.
> 2) Protect undocumented whistleblowers from the INS.
> 3) Give legal residency to anyone who can prove they've been in the
> country for seven years and a day.
>
> -bob
>
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