The plumbers who did work for me last year and charged $4000 did not arrive in a shipping container.
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A very large percentage of construction, factory and service jobs are going to illegal immigrants in California, Texas, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada and elsewhere. This doesn't contribute to the trade deficit but it beats the hell out of the bargaining power of local workers in those regions that are overrun with immigration. Both legal and illegal aliens concentrate in the same major metropolitan communities. When you combine the effects of manufacturing jobs lost to exports and the blue collar work going to cheap illegal labor you get a very depressed wage base for the whole labor force. This is very much a part of the political pressure to keep our borders open to trade and immigrants. Corporations want cheap labor and they dictate to Washington what US policy will be. That's the name of that tune.
