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by crdb 4052 days ago
And it's already pretty large: 3.3 million legal workers at or below minimum wage [1] vs 12 million illegals in the United States. That's almost 80% of low wage workers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Stat...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Unit... - assuming most of them don't work as investment bankers.