Monday, July 15, 2013

Down with Amnesty! Up with Americans!

I've said something repeatedly: the Form I-9 requires employers to check the legal documentation of workers on the first day of employment for all new hires.  Since few companies actually perform the checks and the federal government does not actually check the form that it requires to be completed, millions of illegal workers are gainfully employed by companies performing illegal actions.

I heard some idiot left winger ridicule the concept of "Self Deportation" as if it could not or would never happen.  If the feds all of a sudden started checking the Form I-9, what would happen?  The jobs for illegals would dry up.  What happens when jobs dry up for illegal immigrants?  Self deportation.  Duh, you stupid morons.

You know what happens when illegals leave?  Wage equilibrium in the job market happens.  This means that corporations who previously skated by on illegal labor (bought cheaply) would then have to pay a marketable wage to Americans.  Minimum wage?  Give me a break.  You don't need a minimum wage when you subtract illegal immigration from the equation.  Minimum wage becomes irrelevant.  Illegal immigrants artificially oversupply the labor market, and oversupply drives labor prices down.  When you hear people say: Americans won't clean ditches for what we pay, what they really mean to say is that they cannot get American workers to work for less than American workers demand.  Once you remove the illegal labor crutch from big corporations as well as small businesses, you start to talk about real wage equilibrium.  That's what I'm talking about. 

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