>>105785939it has always be. there is no such thing as labor shortage, just bad salaries.
immigration's only purpose is to lower wages as you said but also to stifle working conditions, benefits and unions.
the left needs immigration for ideological reasons, but the right also needs it for economical purposes. that's another reason why the far-right won, except Trump back-stabbed his own people by allowing more H1Bs to come early this year because of Musk and Thiel lobbying hard for the GAFAM in general.