The market really does work, once we change the incentives:

PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) — One month after Arizona introduced a law cracking down on businesses which employ illegal immigrants, Latino workers are fleeing the state and companies are laying off employees in droves, officials and activists say. . . . Ironco has raised steel fitters’ wages 30 percent from a year ago, according to Bailey. “We’ve raised wages, competing for a diminishing supply (of workers),” he said. “We’ve been on a campaign of quality improvement, training, scouring the waterfront, so to speak, for American vets, ex-offenders trying to find their way back into society.”