So which is it? They cant both be true

Ah, yes, because it's so wrong to want to be able to actually eat, pay bills, live in a home, and pay taxes with the money you earn.

The problem is the minimum wage should have been rising slowly over the years, not stagnating for so long and then one huge, ridiculous leap. That leap is just making things worse, not better.

Sure, SOME people are making a little more money, but it's at the expense of others who are getting fired to keep costs down, if they're not being replaced altogether by automated kiosks. On top of that, businesses are cutting their open hours. (eg the store downstairs in the building where I live, the owner has knocked 2 hours off his open time; 1 hour in the morning, and 1 hour in the evening.)

Additionally, the people who are still working after the massive wage hike are having to do twice as much work, to make up for the people fired.

The minimum wage needed to go up, yes, but it should have been done gradually.

You're right.

They can already do that in their country getting paid a lot less than the mi unum wage here...

True, but illegal immigration drives down wages and makes life harder for the working class

True.