A goodly proportion of mass immigration is illegal. Most illegal immigrants are destined for unskilled, labour-intensive industries, mostly in the small/medium business sector, where the aggregate benefits of paying lower wages can be maximised. A 2012 study found Illegal migrants are concentrated in industries such as wholesale and retail trade, food services, agriculture/horticulture, construction, landscaping/gardening, dry cleaning, car washes, transportation, hospitality and childcare.
In Australia there are up to 100,000 illegal migrant workers willing to work for cut-rate First World wages rather than Third World wages, who, if deported, would make a large dent in Australia’s 700,000-long dole queues.
Many employers of illegal migrants are active in the underground economy, where the migrants, complicit in the illegal practice, are pleased at having a job that pays even cut-price First World wages, and work off-the-books and pay no tax, and where employment benefits such as superannuation, holiday and sick pay, etc are non-existent or minimal.
Illegal migrant workers, precisely because they are illegal, are unlikely to unionise or otherwise cause trouble to their employer’s profits by pursuing their labour rights, a process which could bring them to the attention of government authorities or, if a complaint is kept in-house, result in them being turfed from their job for more compliant drones.
Although ‘open borders’ ideology, and its support for cheap labour through mass Third World immigration, takes political cover under the moral umbrella of multiculturalism, illegal immigration is fundamentally a question of economics.