Miami condo developer Jorge Perez said President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportations risk leading to a “police state” while also fueling new increases in consumer prices.
Many immigrants are highly educated and hold well-paying jobs, but the vast majority of immigrants, legal or otherwise, are a source of cheap(er) labor. They make about 86¢ per dollar their native-born peers make, and they’re less likely to hold management and higher positions.
Undocumented immigrants fill jobs Americans don’t want to do for the exploitative wages the employers pay.
Both are true.
Many immigrants are highly educated and hold well-paying jobs, but the vast majority of immigrants, legal or otherwise, are a source of cheap(er) labor. They make about 86¢ per dollar their native-born peers make, and they’re less likely to hold management and higher positions.
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