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But that is a small example of what we face with respect to the downward pressure on income for those who work at the bottom of the economic ladder. Now. the Wall Street Journal ran a very interesting story in January of this year. It showed that in an area where there is a sudden drop in the availability of illegal immigrants. the wages for U.S. workers then rise. There was a series of raids by Federal immigration agents in Stilimore. GA. and this is again quoting from the Wall Street Journal: A local poultry processing company called Crider Inc. lost 75 percent of its 900 member work force when they were found to be illegal aliensIllegal workers. The company apparently. according to the story. had a pretty good idea that a good number of its workers had been illegal. One workerIt says in the storyarrived at the plant in 2004.