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Do you have better solutions in mind. My naive thoughts are that paying a living wage will also cost business owners more (hence why they're not sounds that), but try that regulating illegal immigrant pay could risk deportation. The later point is speculation on my part, and seems oxymoronic ...
Seems like the best option is to make it easier to get legal immigrant area status for workers.
There was a solution proposed where produce would have an extra $0.03 attached to each produce sold and that would go towards agriculture workforce pay.
That was lobbied against by McDonalds and other Restaurant chains and it died in the senate.
I don't think people realize how little we have to do in order to increase someone else's quality of life. It's not hundreds of dollars, it's 3 cents.
path to legal citizenship or not-onerous-to-get work visas so they're allowed to work in the US and compete on the larger job market (and earn a reasonable income)
ultimately, migrant workers are shoring up the US economy. They're already here, they're already working. and they're not criminals. Unlike the rich fucks that buy their way into the US. Like Ted Cruz.