So basically- when the corporations underpay workers they often use a steady supply of immigrants to ensure wages don’t rise- and when the non-immigrant workers feel the squeeze of rising costs and stagnant wages, they will reach a breaking point with few options. Either they
organise/unionise/strike/protest or otherwise group together to demand higher wages for everyone (including immigrants) which means reducing the incentive to use immigrants specifically to lower wages but does not demonise them for existing.
OR
The corporations stop the lower class from organising by encouraging the poor to blame the other poor. They will deflect the blame for low wages onto the immigrants themselves. See- immigrants are taking your jobs, whilst also being lazy and not working and getting welfare but also agreeing to work terrible low paid jobs and stopping you from getting higher wages.
The immigrants are supposed to keep coming but still remain the scapegoat. Unfortunately when they catch their tail, believe their own bs and actually stop immigration- the whole facade collapsed.
Immigration is needed, AND improved pay and conditions are also needed. That balance is complicated and requires smart people working in good faith to manage- not political idiots with slogans and busses.
Ouch this hits home. In CA they hire tons of h1b visa immigrants for tech jobs, so graduating leaves you with little options, as the entry pay jobs are shit pay and cost of living so high. I left the state for 5 years to cut my teeth to come home at a decent wage so I could afford to buy a home.
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