Minimum Wage and Immigrant Labor Wage Contradiction

I keep seeing posts about minimum wage being too low and that the minimum wage should be increased so that no one in America has to work for such little money. I also see posts about how if we deport the undocumented immigrant workers who are working below minimum wage we would regret it because wages would increase for those jobs and therefore prices would increase.

Are these the same people? If so, make it make sense that someone could hold both of these ideas in their head at the same time and not see a contradiction.

Do people want higher wages for lower paid jobs like agriculture or not? Is picking strawberries in 90 degree weather in Florida or Avocados in California not worthy enough of $15 an hour minimum wage? Which honestly should be more like $25 an hour at this point with benefits.

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