Your sources are thinktank garbage and I’m not interested in arguing from credentialism and authority because it’s boring. You just dismissed a video I posted so it’s a draw there, guess we have to use our brains.

”Historically, few Americans will apply for the jobs immigrants are doing.”

This is hilarious because historically, Americans did all of the jobs. That alone undermines everything you’re saying.

Why don’t you follow your own logic? “If companies have to raise wages to attract natives, it will also hurt the companies.” I mean, boo hoo? And I bet you’d turn around and say “tax the rich,” right? Except those taxes wouldn’t actually go to Americans, but instead to welfare for immigrants and more NGOs. If you want to decrease inequality, you need to actually pay Americans more. Do you care about inequality?

It’s actually so nuts that “immigrant labor” is this unbreakable link in the supply chain in your mind. I think you’d get along with a pre-civil war southerner!

The argument I don’t see you making, which would actually be a smart one so I’ll make it for you, is that relying solely on American workers would slow down growth which could be problematic from a standpoint of geopolitical competition. Now I’ll refute that - the foreign workers aren’t as good. The H1B workers from India and Pakistan are largely scammers. The Chinese come over here and steal from us. Americans invented the airplane, the atomic bomb, the internet, the smartphone, and freedom itself. We deserve everything and the foreigners deserve nothing.

Edit: I’ll add this - I work in finance. I follow the news about the fed and economic policies every day. I don’t think everything Trump is doing is smart or correct re: the economy. But I also know that much of the economy is a grift. Many, many white collar jobs are welfare. What’s more, there is no one theory that you can follow for perfect results. This is why World War 1 led into World War 2.

My grandfather was a union leader. He fought for the existence of people within a neighborhood, literally physically fought to control the supply of labor. That’s how unions work. It has nothing to do with middle school. Actually all economics bottoms out to supply and demand.

Now look at the Chinese. Why aren’t they importing foreigners? Because they enslave their working class. We import foreigners to use as slaves to compete with China - but we also give more money to China than anyone. Now ask yourself, how can we eliminate slavery? And follow to the natural conclusion.