Here's a somewhat interesting pair of posts from RCP:

Harold Meyerson: "Then They Came for the Immigrant Truckers"

Chirs Spear: "Get Dangerous, Unqualified Truckers Off the Road Now"

I read the Meyerson piece first. Obviously I was a bit suspicious, but I tried to be more objective than I'm naturally inclined to be.

This para didn't do anything to assuage my suspicions, though:

There’s a clear reason why the trucking workforce relies on immigrants: The jobs are arduous and low-paying. The average yearly take-home pay of those L.A. port truckers, according to a survey by the UC Berkeley Labor Center, is a munificent $28,000, which comes complete with no benefits whatever. In 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) put the median income of all long-haul truckers at $53,000 for those who were employees and $45,000 for those who were independent contractors (often mislabeled as such by their employers—Amazon and FedEx most particularly—as a means to save those employers money), but both groups had to work well more than 40 hours a week to make that much.

This reminded me of the NYT's (?) famous headline, roughly: Prison populations continue to climb despite reduction in crime...

   Not to put to fine a point on it, but: it seems likely that TAP is confusing cause and effect: the availability of cheap legal and illegal immigrant labor is likely to have suppressed pay. Or: there's a feedback loop, with each factor affecting the other.

   But anyway, the TAP post seems predicated on the assumption that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are just implementing their mythical hatred of immigrants in yet another handy way. While I was reading it, it became--or seemed to become--overwhelmingly obvious that crucial parts of the story were being suppressed. In particular, it didn't even try to state the administration's argument. The motive was represented as hatred--the only reason conservatives ever need...

   Anyway, the Spear piece seems much more rational to me--but, then, all this lines up with my prejudices...so grain of salt and all that...