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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Non-hispanic tradespeople would be happy to build houses for this guy — if he paid them a decent wage. He likes using undocumented immigrant labor because he can skip the niceties like adequate pay and health insurance. This is why we need a decent immigration system.

BS. White folks won't do the work; it's been shown time and time again. Watch the whole video before making clueless remarks.

If people with options won't do the work, maybe it's work that doesn't need to get done.

As societies get richer, wages for workers go up. That makes certain tasks in an economy impossible because the value of that task is lower than the wage needed to get someone to do it. A good example is servants. Middle class people in the Dominican Republican can afford servants. Not true here.

I'm the US, you can't afford a servant just for laundry like you could elsewhere. So you buck up and do it yourself for free. You also spend a bit of money to get a better washing machine, detergent, etc. The job of "laundry servant" just can't exist in a rich economy.

We're talking about building houses here. I think maybe you joined the wrong conversation.

The work in question is building houses. PERIOD. If you want to discuss labor inequities you can do that I guess, but it's kind of hijacking my comments, which related to the house building video. Or I'm just confused as fuck.

Republicans have traditionally favored immigration and simultaneously blocked up dates to the legal immigration system in order to create a source of exploitable workers.