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Illegal immigrants don't take our jobs. Illegal immigrants dramatically reduce low skilled wages. Cesar Chavez was a strong opponent of illegal immigration for that exact reason.

Today I'm a physician; illegal immigrants have no effect on my compensation. A long time ago I was a high school kid cutting grass. Back then, trucks full of guys who didn't speak English pulling trailers full of yard equipment that they couldn't afford to buy on their own set the price of my labor. We got yards by undercutting them by $5 a week. We absorbed that cost but the companies that owned the capital (in this case a trailer full of Skags and Echos) for our illegal immigrant competitors weren't willing to cut their margins.

When we talk about a family that worked hard to learn English and immigrate legally, why do we get to artificially reduce their wages by allowing massive competition from illegals? The chief economic utility of illegals is that they can be easily exploited. Democrats denounce human trafficking but with the next breath vote yes to allowing more illegals to enter or remain in the US. Illegal immigration happens because illegals will accept less than the prevailing rate for low skilled labor. That's the exact definition of exploitation and human trafficking.

Why do we get to destroy the wages of low skilled workers?