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As it is the lower wage jobs that attract said immigration, panelist Reihan Salam jumped in with a fairly interesting economic theory proposed by California conservative Ron Unz, who suggested that raising the minimum wage was the secret to lowering demand for cheap labor. If said cheap labor wasn’t legal, the desire to hire these workers would subside– a theory just wonky enough to get the rest of the panel extremely excited about challenging the theory, with Klein leading the charge, suggesting the idea led to “a very, very large black market for labor.”
The segment via MSNBC below: