Immigrants have far less to do with this than the wealth concentration created by online aggregators like Amazon or Google. Do you think Bezos is going to pay m

Immigrants have far less to do with this than the wealth concentration created by online aggregators like Amazon or Google. Do you think Bezos is going to pay more or encourage better working conditions if the people are white? There are currently two Americas: the one inhabited by the ~10% of people who work in tech and make $150k+, and the one inhabited by everyone else. If you’re part of “everyone else,” your participation in the economy is likely in domestic service to them (Uber drivers, house cleaners, etc). If you’re complaining about immigrants taking jobs, you’re probably part of “everyone else” — immigrants are seen as a positive to folks in my social class because they’re cheap domestic labor. It’s why the GOP has supported lax immigration policy for decades. We need to have a serious conversation as to whether food, shelter and health care should be considered human rights. Free market economics cannot solve this problem — it actually only serves to make workers more desperate so they accept shittier and shittier working conditions serving the elite in order to eat.