Breitbart By John Binder
President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to mass deport illegal aliens will force up United States wages as employers are unable to rely on cheaper foreign workers, a new report suggests.
A report from CalMatters, a California-based nonprofit news organization, admits that employers will have to pay more for labor as a result of mass deportations because foreign workers are cheaper to hire than their American counterparts.
CalMatters reports:
Mass deportations promised by President-elect Donald Trump could have a seismic economic effect in California — potentially inflicting billions of dollars in direct damages to a wide range of industries, including small business, agriculture, construction and child care, advocates and academics said.
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It could be costly to replace those who are deported. In the construction industry, for example, the median weekly earnings of full-time, U.S.-born workers as of 2020 were $1,031 vs. $786 for foreign-born workers, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In California, the median hourly wage as of 2021 was $30 an hour for U.S.-born workers vs. $24 an hour for immigrant workers vs. $16 an hour for undocumented workers, according to the California Immigrant Data Portal, a project by the Equity Research Institute at USC, which is directed by Pastor. [Emphasis added]
The fact that employers tend to pay foreign workers, particularly illegal aliens, less than Americans is partly why the California Chamber of Commerce is opposing Trump’s mass deportation program.
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