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Theoretically. But. Not really true.
We know who devalues labor. It's the companies that only pay the bare minimum wage cause it's the law. Otherwise they wouldn't.
It's the companies that pay under the table to desperate people so they can avoid paying them the legal amount and often commit wage theft and there is nothing undocumented people can do about it.
Exploitative businesses are the ones devaluing labor.
Sure, but if almost nobody will do the job for minimum wage except for immigrant workers, should those businesses be allowed to exploit those workers instead of paying the wage they would need to staff their businesses?
Even though the businesses are the "guilty ones" it seems more like a policy issue than a business one, as the business will always do the bare minimum it can get away with. Especially egregious with temporary foreign worker programs. Why have programs that essentially subsidize industries that just exploit minimum wage workers and depress wages? And now racist assholes have a scapegoat in the people accepting the bad deal instead of the people who allow it in the first place.
Who pays the politicians to keep minimum wage low and fines for hiring illegals low to non-existent ?
You are right, the laws are not in our favor.
Big business owns politicians and they get policies that benefit them.