[weweersdfsd]

They will keep crying that, no matter the actual labor market situation. My country has low wages, high unemployment, and yet businesses similarly cry for more immigration, as they always want to find the most desperate worker who accepts the lowest wage possible. That's the reality of modern capitalism.

[eru]

Have you considered that those foreigners are humans, too?

Or do you believe in out-of-sight-is-out-of-mind?

[weweersdfsd]

Of course they are humans like everybody else. But I do not support mass migration as a tool for bringing the wages further down and exploiting workers. I think the rich should be taxed much more, and that money used to reduce poverty & improve education globally. It's not migration itself that is the problem, but the fact many migrants are in a position where they can be exploited more easily than native workers.

In ideal world businesses would have to pay a fair livable wage, no matter where they build factories, or receive migrants from.

[eru]

Mass migration would bring their wages _up_, not down. That's why they would migrate.

> It's not migration itself that is the problem, but the fact many migrants are in a position where they can be exploited more easily than native workers.

Well, if you let people migrate easily and legally, they wouldn't be easier to exploit than native workers.

[llamaimperative]

You can't possibly be earnestly misunderstanding what GP meant when they said wages would get suppressed, right?

Obviously the migrants wages would be relatively higher, and the locals' wages would be suppressed. Typically locals' needs are the (reasonably) top priority for elected officials.

[eru]

Hence my insistence that foreigners are also humans.

Why would the locals' wages be suppressed?

In any case, we could try to figure out how much locals' wages would be suppressed, then tax the migrant workers that amount, and pay the locals. Seems pretty straightforward.