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by denzil_correa 3427 days ago
> Parent comment also is only referring to low-wage jobs so I suppose the entire H1B thing is irrelevant to the discussion.

I'm not the one who mentioned H1B. I mentioned "legal immigrants".

> Is immigration uncontrolled? Yes immigration is not 100% controlled, hence illegal immigrants are a thing.

I could say the other way too. Immigration is not 100% uncontrolled, so it is controlled. However, what we do have is controlled immigration to a large degree and there are some uncontrolled immigration too. The ratio of controlled to uncontrolled is very high. So, I can not see how one can make the claim that immigration is uncontrolled to being with.

> Not sure what you're looking for... you asked for a source - seems clear that yes, wages for some groups are "artificially suppressed" by "uncontrolled immigration".

There is nothing to say that immigration is uncontrolled. Further, there is nothing to say that legal immigration suppresses (not lowers down) wages "artificially". The words used in the parent comment "uncontrolled", "artificially" and "suppress" have specific meanings which replaced by "illegal", "supply-demand" and "lowers down" change the impression of that statement.