Republi'cans : '
Inflation is bad. Wages going up must be controlled and curtailed. '
Also Republi'cans' :
Cutting down LEGAL MIGRATION would increase working-class wages and create jobs.
Sure if you stop legal immigration or greatly reduce it and end the migrants coming in, the employers in Agriculture and Hospitality would have no choice but to continually raise wages until they attracted Americans willing to do that very undesirable work.
The problem is that Farms picking fruits and vegetables DO NOT have the price elasticity to pass on much higher wage costs, as they compete with farm goods coming in from other countries. So the end result would be killing off many areas of farming within America.
Hospitality (Hotels, Resorts, restaurants, etc) can arguably afford it and pass on the higher costs but that causes significant inflation then .
These are the competing demons of not taking a holistic approach to immigration/migration that republicunts refuse to consider, acting as if you can just put the hammer down on one side of the equation and not have to think about the other.
Historically republicans were very open to ways to manage this challenge in productive ways. Todays republicunts, do not want a productive solution. They want the system to break.