My colleague Hans Bader has more on how the Senate immigration bill acts as a central planning function:

The Senate immigration bill for the first time extends Davis-Bacon’s “prevailing wage” requirements far beyond federal contracts to all private sector jobs, not just construction jobs, performed by guest workers. Federal bureaucrats will now have to calculate wage levels and create new regulations for a host of new job categories that have never before been subject to “prevailing wage” requirements.

Read the whole thing on the CEI blog here.