Even though it’s not supposed to happen, cheap labor exists in the U.S. I think it’s largely due to immigrants who have no other way of providing for their families. They work “under the table” sometimes for $2.00 an hour because that’s their disadvantage of entering the U.S. without papers. They accept to work for low wages as a consequence, but it shouldn’t be that way.
I’m not saying that undocumented people should be eligible to work high paying jobs if they aren’t qualified. I’m saying that if they’re employers are well off into their business to find extra help, then they must have enough money coming in to pay their workers an understandable wage.
An understandable wage is minimum wage. Employers do risk their record by hiring undocumented workers, but if they take such a risk, they should risk it with honor. Employers who give jobs to undocumented workers are honorable because they provide opportunities to them when others refuse to. This honor could further be heightened by paying their employees, their money’s worth—minimum wage.
Most immigrants work in factories, as construction workers, or as field workers which are jobs that demand extensive physical labor. Immigrants take these jobs that are necessary to stabilize the United States, but undesirable by its own citizens. They deserve to be paid more because they’re complacent to do the hard labor U.S. citizens prefer not to, with determination since most of them set their minds to succeed in the United States, no matter the downfalls.
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