Letters to the Editor: Businesses shouldn’t be able to take advantage of immigrants with low wages

To the editor : I’m highly supportive of immigrants coming to the United States to escape the conditions of their homelands, be it legally or not. That being said, I’m not supportive of Americans who take advantage of that desperation to earn a profit on their labor.

The recent article on the ICE raids and the car wash whose employees were rounded up by ICE described the work as “low wages for back-breaking labor” ( “This L.A. car wash depends on immigrant labor. Can it survive Trump?,” Nov. 23). In the next paragraph, the car wash owner was quoted as saying, “Americans don’t want to do this work.” That’s a true statement, but it’s an incomplete statement. He should have said that they don’t want to do this work for the wages that only a desperate worker would accept.

The fact that