[lit-ideas] Re: Illegal Immigration
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:38:20 +0100
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From: "Paul Stone" <pas@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:02 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Illegal Immigration
Mike Geary wrote:
"Raise the minimum wage. It's as simple as that. Make the minimum wage
in
this country a living, family, saving wage."
Paul Stone replied:
This a defeatist proposition.
Actually, it's missing the point given the level of illegal immigration. In
order to maintain and legislate for a minumum wage, a worker needs to be
'legal' in the sense of being able to have course of redress if their wage
falls below the miminum level. An illegal immigrant being paid below the
minimum wage cannot go and complain to the authorities.
Allowing illegal immigration, or at least doing little to prevent it, is an
effective method of subverting minimum wage legislation. Hence it is no
suprise that Bush would do little to alleviate the problem.
Regards
Simon Ward
Dartmoor, Britain
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