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I want a wall because I think the reducing the supply of unskilled labor will tend to raised wages for unskilled workers in the United States.
by lamarpye 8y ago
I want a wall because I think the reducing the supply of unskilled labor will tend to raised wages for unskilled workers in the United States.
- asdff 8y agoActually, the supply of unskilled labor is too low. On agriculture, large corporate farms like Tyson Foods can afford to invest in automation to deal with the lack of labor supply (1), however, many employers of unskilled labor do not have the resources that Tyson Foods does. Limiting immigration has never been good for the economy (2). When farmers cannot hire enough people to harvest a crop, the field goes fallow, and the farm folds. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/farmworkers-immigrant-labor-robots.html?emc=edit_ca_20181121&nl=california-today&nlid=8794468120181121&te=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/farmworkers-immigrant-... 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/business/trump-legal-immigration-h1b-visas.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/business/trump-legal-immi...