The Wall Street Journal has a front-page story today on yet another company, this time a chicken processor in Georgia, that is now astonishingly offering a ton of jobs at a much higher rate of pay, after an immigration raid at its facilities made it lose 75% of its work force. Compare this situation to another company that I recently blogged about, this time in Colorado, that experienced the same "miracle" after the illegal workers were arrested.
The story's main focus is how low-income blacks in the area are benefitting, but the same scenario is being repeated across the country, wherever our immigration laws are being enforced. When there are no longer illegal workers to artificially lower the wage rate, there are plenty of good-paying jobs, and no shortage of American citizens and legal immigrants willing to work at them.
Now if we can only start jailing the executives that sign off on this illegal hiring, we can start to make some real progress. In my opinion, a company cannot have 80% of its workers be illegal, and the people in charge not know about it. Reduce the demand, and you will reduce the supply, and increase jobs and wages for people here legally.
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