>"Oops, we tried to find someone but it just doesn't seem like there's anyone with a master's degree and 5-10 years of related experience willing to work for $14 an hour!"
Then they can just hire whatever H1B or illegal they were planning on hiring anyway.
The sad truth about the "jobs numbers" is that the majority of those created are Church's Chicken-tier part-time wagie crap jobs. Low-end stuff. I get that 270,000 "jobs created" per month is a great talking point but still. Manufacturing is not as strong as made out to be and extremely location-specific, there's almost none anywhere near my city.