Reply #45: Whatever. [View All]

[QC]

I very much agree that the problem is with a business elite that pits working people against one another to push down wages. I'm an old-fashioned lefty, so I have no problem understanding that.

My point is simply that to people who are living on the edge--not people with lakehouses and boats and $30,000 weddings--it is very clear that immigration is being used to push wages down. That is why working-class voters perceive a problem here. If we are going to be true to our party's historic mission of looking out for the disadvantaged, we need to find some way to protect both immigrant workers and natives. We cannot simply pretend that mass immigration has no price when it so clearly does.