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It's well known that the pay of meat packers has tanked over the last generation, and whereas meat packers used to be mostly American, they're mostly immigrant now. Also, this same phenomenon exists in all the low/no-skilled jobs and trades. Construction. Hospitality. etc. Corporations have aided and abetted these changes. Tom Tancredo (R-Co), in the '90s and '00s was the primary exponent of reducing immigration. He told me that a couple of fast food execs spent an hour with him trying to buy him off the issue (keep quiet about immigration and we'll keep your coffers full). Big biz GOPers have been pushing for more immigration for at least 35 years--for the cheap labor. Zuckerberg's Fwd.US' raison d'etre is to bring cheap tech workers from abroad so companies don't have to spend as much money. Unemployment among American tech workers due to influx of foreigners has been well reported on since the '90s. the NYT didn't report on the issue until 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html

There's also this (and I've got more) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trumps-invasion-was-a-corporate-recruitment-drive/596230/?fbclid=IwAR2JdrMMGUzyX8loirtx6bB_oi8xn6Ct1foUQZlsG6Hc7vgFVBeMeRi6Uas

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As you rightly point out, it depends on the sector you're looking at and often it is a function of the gutting of the unions and the threat of moving production offshore that has held back or cut the wages.

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