There are actually very good statistics on this. There's really no point in denial.
If you judge people's competence by your (or anyone else's) standards of political correctness you're going to be constantly wrong.
We merely need them to maintain our current standard of living. We could do with less. You see, that's your problem. The economy noticed a need for more workers before politicians did. During the pandemic, when the number of jobs fell, so did the number of illegal aliens. The economy is smarter than most politicians. Real wages would decline as GDP would decline if all undocumented workers left the country.
is well known that mass deportation reduces aggregate economic variables like GDP due to scale effects.
On construction sites across Baldwin County, Ala., workers are vanishing mid-shift. Not because they quit, but because immigration agents hauled them away—the “God-fearing, family-oriented” laborers who braved blistering summer heat on rooftops to support their families.
Now, contractors warn the raids are deepening a labor shortage that already threatens the state’s economic prosperity: Even in Alabama, where 65% of voters backed President Donald Trump with immigration as a top campaign issue.
Builders are now calling for a work visa for law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
fortune.com
The sight of unpicked produce rotting in the field was still on farmers’ minds when they gathered for a seminar on Alabama’s new immigration law Aug. 6 in Huntsville.The seminar, held in conjunction with the Alabama Farmers Federation 39th Annual Commodity Producers Conference, followed a day of tours that included a stop at Jackie Loyd’s farm in nearby Stevenson, where migrant workers have fled in advance of the Sept. 1 effective date of the new law. Unfortunately, speakers at the seminar gave farmers little hope of reversing the flight of migrant workers or repealing provisions of the law that hurt agriculture.”Employers should not expect the courts to block the sections most relevant to you,” said Ted Hosp, an attorney with Maynard, Cooper and Gale, referring to multiple lawsuits challenging the new law that were recently consolidated in federal district court.
The sight of unpicked produce rotting in the field was still on farmers’ minds when […]
alfafarmers.org
Unauthorized immigration surged sharply in 2021–24 but has since declined abruptly with negative implications for economic growth. Estimates based on historical data and a structural vector autoregression model suggest gross domestic product growth in 2025 is 0.75 to 1 percentage points lower than in a benchmark simulation using the Congressional Budget Office’s immigration projections through November 2024.
Unauthorized immigration surged sharply in 2021–24 but has since declined abruptly with negative implications for economic growth.
www.dallasfed.org
The economy is smarter than most politicians. Now so are Alabama employers.
A simple check would have shown how wrong you are.
You are being badly mislead by your own conjecture and speculation.
