>>510190805>More people = glut of labor = less bargaining power among workersYes. However, these conditions don't exist in a vacuum. You have to compare it to the alternatives. A business employs migrant workers for, say, farming. If you remove those workers, a business may cancel American farm contracts and source their products from the same laborers in their home country. This is an example of how your assertion could potentially miss an important detail.
>That's not pressuring a business to do so, it's something they HAVE to do if they want people to work for them.I am failing to understand your point, here. I take it you agree with my premise and you simply believe that keeping illegals won't pressure a business to raise wages. If that is the case, I agree. I mean to say that we should pressure businesses with more than just cutting the labor supply.
>Call centers...I mentioned this because it clarifies my point.
I'm not saying that increased supply is entirely detached from falling wages, I am saying that the reason that wages go down is due to the market pressures that high labor supplies create. Unfortunately, we are in a situation where businesses use anti-competitive practices, such as vertical integration and hiring foreign laborers, to dry out local businesses. We have a de-fanged FTC and other regulatory agencies. Worse, we have collusion between the regulatory agencies and the companies they are charged to regulate. That is the reason for low wages and high prices. You can shuffle around the labor supplies as much as you want, but the businesses won't play fair. They will hire foreigners, anyway.