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Those generally shilling for illegal immigration are the ones getting benefit of cheap labor not competing in the manual labor market. You increase supply the price you can charge plummets. Pretty easy to understand.

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At the very least, you have to prove that demand is fixed. Otherwise it's meaningless to claim that supply increase have any effect on price (price may momentarily decrease, but cheaper price could increase demand which bring price back up).

And before someone claims that immigrants don't participate in normal labor pool, then you should advocate for open border, free market style

If you increase the price, the demand can plummet as well. This can be in the form of a high minimum wage, complex labor rules, legally mandated compensation, high taxes etc.

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