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A major bakery on the Northwest Side once known for making Little Debbie snack cakes was sold earlier this month after an immigration audit cost the company about a third of its workers.
About 800 employees of the main Cloverhill Bakery on the Northwest Side and the company’s bakeries in Cicero and Romeoville lost their jobs when the audit found many were hired after presenting fake or stolen IDs.
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Those Hispanic employees didn’t return to work, leaving the bakery desperate to fill their jobs. So the company turned to another placement agency, Metro Staff Inc., and it provided Cloverhill with workers screened through the government’s “E-Verification” program. Most of those new employees are African American.
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According to a former consultant to the bakery, MSI paid the black workers $14 an hour, versus the $10 an hour the Mexican workers were making through Labor Network.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/busine...-bakery-labor-issues-pit-blacks-vs-hispanics/
So as we can see, here is a direct example of illegal labor directly suppressing wages for Americans.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a party(Dem) who supports raising wages for low income workers supports one of the main contributors to keeping those wages low. Makes little sense to me.