With respect to the question I asked there was an argument put forward that I found interesting:
Presently there is a staggeringly high percentage of men aged 25-64 not working. This is separate from the unemployment rate which only includes people of both genders presently not working who are actively looking for work. Now this prime age men not working contains some groups of people who legitimately can’t work - the retarded, disabled etc. But even when you remove these people from this statistic the number is still insanely high.
So if the elites suddenly had their cheap immigrant labor cut off, would it be fair to assume the elites would do everything in their power to lure these prime aged men not working into working in their factory or farm? like Aragorn had suggested increasing wages would be a major way of doing this and by extension lead to less parasites living off the system. Wouldn’t the elites also push to cut entitlements to further incentivize these not working men to work for them? Make living on welfare an increasingly bad deal.
Keep in mind low skilled immigrant labor is only a great deal for the elites. A sizable portion of welfare is targeted toward the working poor, so yes you’d be paying extra for goods but would have to pay less to prop these people up via Welfare programs targeted at the working.