No. it is not that some free market purists dont want wages to go up. That is not my problem. I think the problem is this: The problem is an excessive flow of lowskilled immigrant workers into our country in such large numbers that it has stultified and eliminated the growth that would have occurred for lowskilled American workers. I wish that werent so. but I believe the numbers are quite clear on it. In any number of different ways we can see that this has occurred. So I will be offering an amendment as part of this bill. one that deals with 153. Pt. 2 1819 workplace enforcement and what we can do to make the workplace such that American workers are not competing with lowskilled. illegal immigrants in the workforce. We are receiving 1 million immigrants legally in our country today and more than half that many coming in illegally every year. So the competition American workers face from illegal laborers is a serious problem that affects their wages. If you bring in a huge amount of wheat. you bring a huge amount of cotton. you bring in a huge amount of corn. you can expect those prices to fall.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that low-skilled immigrants are causing wages to stagnate for American workers.