Amnesty for Cheap Labor Is Modern-Day Slavery
Letting illegal workers stay because they have jobs rewards the employers who exploit them and undercuts American wages.
The case for amnesty is usually presented as a story about compassion. Look closer, and it is a story about cheap labor and nothing more than modern-day slavery.
For more than four years, Americans have paid the price for open-border policies: higher housing costs, more dangerous roads, and a tougher job market for American workers. Enforcement is now beginning to reverse those effects. That is exactly why illegal entry should not be rewarded.
Amnesty advocates argue that illegal aliens fill jobs Americans won’t take. But the jobs go unfilled by Americans largely because employers can pay illegal workers less, and workers with no legal status are unlikely to report low pay or poor working conditions. Rewarding that arrangement doesn’t fix the labor market. It locks in a system that depresses wages for everyone and exploits the people it claims to help.
President Trump has been the strongest voice for securing America’s borders, and that message helped carry him to victory in 2024. He should not soften it now. If those who entered the country illegally can stay simply because they found a job, the message to the next would-be border crosser is that the law doesn’t matter, and the first step is all that counts.
Why it Matters
Americans suffered tremendously because of Democrats’ open border policies. That must not be forgotten.
- As Restoration News’ Jacob Grandstaff reported, when the Biden administration opened the floodgates at the border in 2020, it resulted in a 47 percent increase in housing prices.
- Illegal alien drivers who couldn’t speak English wreaked havoc on the roadways, killing and maiming innocent Americans. One study found that giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens increased fatal crashes by nearly 5 percent.
- Prior to President Trump getting elected in 2024, then-Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell admitted the “influx across the borders” was causing the unemployment rate to rise.
Thanks to immigration crackdowns, things have started to get better.
- Housing prices have begun to trend downward, and rent prices are dropping in cities with high immigration arrests.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cracked down on illegal alien truck drivers who put Americans at risk. So far, 33,000 drivers who couldn’t speak basic English have been put out of service, and 31,000 illegally issued licenses were revoked.
- Unemployment claims in July 2026 hit the lowest numbers since 1969.
What’s Next
November’s election results should not be read as a sudden embrace of Democrats’ policies. They were a warning about promises left unfulfilled. Republican voters expect the America First agenda to be carried out, not traded away. Granting amnesty to illegal aliens now would confirm the worst suspicions of the voters who stayed home or switched sides, and push them farther away.
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