>If you continue to flood a country with people who are willing to work for lower wages, supply and demand for employment and wages will continue to work as intended.
Discussing the labor market in this way is overly reductionist and leads to incorrect conclusions. I could even find an article by the cato institute(yes) that concludes:
>Restricting immigration will not have a substantial positive impact on native wages, at least in real terms.
I don't think it's reductionist at all. It strikes at the core issue. One thing the study says is that immigrants and natives take different jobs. Sort of the "someone has to mow our grass" argument. But someone would have to mow the grass either way and it's people who cannot find other work who would fill those jobs. That's why the low-skilled immigrants are taking them. That and the apparent willingness to accept lower wages.
The US isn't simply two groups of people: low skilled people from Central America and rich-ish middle class people. We have all types of people native born. We have our own legion of low skilled people who need work.
I'm extremely skeptical of any studies purporting otherwise because it smacks in the face of what we've been seeing, let alone the obvious outcome we'd expect. These sorts of "don't believe your lying eyes" studies that suggest, no no, keep going along this path because it's having no impact on your life hold no water with me because it's quite obvious that reality is not matching up with what they're suggesting.
Discussing the labor market in this way is overly reductionist and leads to incorrect conclusions. I could even find an article by the cato institute(yes) that concludes:
>Restricting immigration will not have a substantial positive impact on native wages, at least in real terms.
via https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2017/does-immigration...