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by moorhosj 2777 days ago
You still haven't proven that immigration is the cause of this particular wage stagnation. You want to believe it is, but you haven't given evidence.

Is there proof that non-immigrants even want to do this work? The well-known case from Georgia suggests they don't. https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-...

At the same time, couldn't the state just raise the minimum wage?

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He says they used to, but wages didn't keep up.
Immigration hasn’t kept up either, so how can it be the driver?
Why do you think it hasn’t kept up? Perhaps legal hasn’t. CA is a very different place than the one I grew up in.