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This still perpetuates the lie that immigration reduces wages when it actually improves wages: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/05/01/immigrants-raise-wages-and-boost-employment-of-us-born-workers/
Right. So yes, if immigrants take the lowest paying jobs, then the average citizen wage will seem higher because the lowest wages were removed from the pool. That's how average work. I don't think it somehow means the immigrants are causing a wage increase.
It's not just removal of low paying jobs, it's creation of higher paying jobs; that's why employment also improves. As the article explains, the "somehow" is that immigrants also increase the demand for goods and services.