Bennett Hypothesis: Financial Aid Increases Tuition

[alexf.1990]

I don't see how any of this is a defense against illegal immigration? It wasn't very long ago that labor unions were one of the strongest voices against flooding the labor market with cheap, unskilled labor. I can't see how the working class gets any benefit from illegal immigration. If anything, it seems to have been one of the biggest obstacles to higher wages. Raising the minimum wage above the market price will simply increase the amount of surplus labor (unemployment). The only way to meaningfully raise wages is to decrease the number of unskilled workers in the labor market.

Cesar Chavez himself was completely 100% against illegal immigration for these exact reasons, AND the fact that it took advantage of he illegals.  It's a lose-lose.

It's just the political parties looking out for their own interests. Republicans want cheap labor for agriculture and Democrats want to increase the Hispanic voting bloc. Meanwhile, wages are going down for Americans and the home countries of these immigrants are losing their most productive citizens. The problem is even more pronounced with H1B visas and student visas that siphon off the intelligentsia of developing countries.

Here is one of the more coherent arguments against mass immigration from a leftist perspective. But for the need to inflate the hispanic voting bloc, this would be the position of everyone on the left. Instead, anyone who doesn't want the country overwhelmed with cheap, foreign labor is called a bigot. Whats even more bizarre is that this influx of unskilled immigrants disproportionately puts negative wage pressures on black communities.

https://berniesanders.com/open-borders-a...-solution/