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If you want to prevent the formation of a pool of cheap exploitable immigrant labor, there are two ways. The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering,
by pkkim 7y ago
If you want to prevent the formation of a pool of cheap exploitable immigrant labor, there are two ways. The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering, but that's impossible. The second best is to make sure that those who enter have the same freedoms and protections as native born workers, so that unscrupulous employers can't take advantage of them (house cleaners paid below minimum wage, H-1B tech employees paid under the table, chicken processing plants [0]).
0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/09/poultry-industry-recruited-them-now-ice-raids-are-devastating-their-communities/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/09/poultry-in...
- deogeo 7y ago> The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering, but that's impossible. 'Impossible' is a very strong word for something many countries manage just fine. Unless you define 'prevent' as "no immigrant ever enters, even if only to be deported the next day". But there's a third way - prosecute those unscrupulous employers. If only their lobbying money wasn't in the way...
- Hnrobert42 7y agoWhich countries manage just fine? Do those countries’ neighbors have substantially lower performing economies?
- deogeo 7y agoEurope has managed to significantly reduce the influx of immigrants from the middle east - as has Israel.
- dariusj18 7y agoI'm sure there are a great many factors involved in the "reduction" (not prevention) than their own efforts. Examples being, those with opportunity already did so, the Syrian conflict winding down, or ISIS uprooted.