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Originally Posted by jspchief
When the prices of your homes and produce double, just remember that it's because you were dropping the hammer.
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Sorry, but that's rather simplistic.
Even in industries with high concentrations of illegal workers -- such as construction, restaurants and some parts of agriculture -- the impact isn't as great as many people think. If there weren't illegal immigrants working in construction in places like Chicago and Miami, then demand for legal workers would go up, which would mean wages would rise. But very quickly, legal workers from other parts of the country would move to those cities, and wages would go back down. The net impact on wages would be relatively modest.
That's probably the best summation I've seen.