I feel that one thing that is taboo to discuss on HN is the work done by illegal immigrants and their effect on the depression of wages and benefits provided at

I feel that one thing that is taboo to discuss on HN is the work done by illegal immigrants and their effect on the depression of wages and benefits provided at these lower end jobs. As per the Pew center research report from 2014, there are approximately 28M unauthorized immigrant workers in the United States. The availablity of these cheap workers pushes out the legal workers from fields like agriculture, hospitality, construction and leisure where illegal workers are more concentrated, as employers can discriminate against local legal workers since illegal workers are cheaper to hire and control. This makes the legal workers go to the gig economy as provides an upper hand to the gig economy employers. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/what-are-the-jobs-that-immigrants-do/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practic...