Keeping Wages Low

Many of the immigrants who work in the U.S. are undocumented, which grants business owners to take advantage of their employees. Even though the vast majority of these immigrants pay billions in taxes, a big amount of these people are also working unauthorized. Numerous workers are undocumented which means they can be deported. Countless times, these workers are taken advantage of by their bosses by not being paid certain wages they have the right to. Sadly, these employees are at a disadvantage due to their illegal working status. They cannot complain about unpaid wages or hazardous working conditions due to the fact that they run the risk of being deported. This gives employers the power to exploit them and underpay them. As immigrants are suppressed, so are their wages.  A study found that 37% of the immigrants working in the United States were victims of minimum wage violations. Some of these people worked more than 40 hours a week and were not paid for overtime spent on work.