If it isn't cost, what is the appeal of using illegals? Is it simply that there are no legal workers? I'm assuming health insurance isn't included, except maybe through a union, and workers are considered contract labor.
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It's power. Documented workers have avenues to turn to when they're taken advantage of or abused by their employers, undocumented workers who live in fear of deportation don't usually have access to the same avenues and the employers know it. Easier to take advantage of someone too scared to tell.
jul 14, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
I shouldn't have used the term illegal. Undocumented would have been a better choice
jul 13, 2025, 10:28 pm • 7 0 • view
Where are you getting the idea that it isn’t the cost that’s the incentive?
jul 13, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
From the preceding post.
jul 13, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I think perhaps the missing piece is they absolutely aren’t getting paid $20 per hour currently. The point they’re making is that increasing the wages of these badly-underpaid workers would cost us hardly anything.
jul 13, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view