America’s population size is standing still, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Population growth over the 12-month period from July 1, 2020 through July 1, 2021 stood at unprecedented low of just 0.12%.
www.brookings.edu
Growth rose to levels approaching 2%
during the prosperous post-World War II “baby boom” years of the 1950s and 1960s. And after a lull in the 1970s and 1980s, population growth rose again in the 1990s due to rising immigration and millennial generation births.
Point I'm trying to make. No matter how many immigrants we kick out and don't let it, they aren't going to pay blue collar workers any more than they have to. Supply and demand won't help you here. The powers that be do all sorts of things to keep wages/inflation down. And in order for the CEO's and VP's and people under them to make $200K plus a year on up to Tim Cook of Apple makes $770 million. In order for him to make that and all the white collar under him to make what they make, they need to keep blue collar wages down. And the Feds will help them. So will Republicans and Democrats alike through legal immigration.
The only way for blue collar workers to make their fair share is to unionize. And that won't happen.
You can't isolate America and tariff imports and expect other countries to take your stuff.
And this is a global economy now. Too late. Reagan and Bush 1 should have never invented NAFTA. Of course Clinton signed it. He put in worker protections but Bush removed them.
Trump's playing you if you think he's going to fix your problems. But I see why you put all your hopes in him. I would too if I were you.