ironically though relating to the capitalists— having a large illegal immigrant population would be great for them if they were open about the features of the labor market. people don’t publicly acknowledge that capitalism requires a certain proportion of unemployed workers in the system so that capitalists can leverage wages lower to amounts that people who aren’t simply desperate for any job would call unethical. “full employment” itself doesn’t even mean that all citizens are employed, it means that the system has put enough people out of employment that it’s at the “natural rate” necessary to prevent market failure. if capitalists were open about this market feature then they would welcome illegals in open arms because it would mean that citizens alone (who aren’t competing for unskilled labor) could be employed at all times. unfortunately they can’t do this lest they accelerate class consciousness so instead they have to sit there and mald while they are forced instead to lobby against illegal immigration. it is a comfort to consider this
in case drydess' post is too dense for you to understand, mm:
capitalism depends on a significant enough portion of the population to be unemployed (read: desperate for any job), so that wages and thus the cost for basic things can be low enough so everyone else can live in comfort. if you find yourself part of this group, the issue isn't illegal immigrants taking your stuffty low paying job, its the system requiring you (and many others) to have stuffty low paying jobs or else the system collapses.
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