For years businesses in some sectors have employed foreign workers, at the same wage rate that they’d have paid a trainee.
So, you get a thirty year old with strength & some experience as opposed to what? An 18 year old with no experience. It took a good few years to filter through the folly of it all.
I was involved in a business in Turkey, for every foreign National employed, three Nationals (Turks) had to also be employed in that business by Law.