More Evidence That America's Middle Class Is Sliding Toward the Third World

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42. Case in point: The Meatcutters union provided the members of its bargaining units with liveable

wages and provided their employers with efficient labor.
That wasn't good enough for the large meat companies. Many simply closed up their factory, transferred the equipment to a new facility, and hired undocumented people at 20% of the union wage. Since many of these meat packing plants were located in rural areas, there was little solidarity with the workers who lost good jobs.
The choke point is not the Border Patrol or the big wasteful wall but at the workplace with the onus on the employer to prove the company is hiring people who have a right to be in the USA.
It's not the immigrants fault, they need to work since NAFTA, et al, and their governments have created conditions where the migrants have had to leave their small farms(for the most part).
I agree with the poster who said that the same people who are bewailing illegal immigration are the ones profiting from it.