I have two friends in Houston. One is an engineer for the oil company and the other just retired. They've both tried to get me to move there from KC since I moved here from Colorado. They keep going on and on about all the construction & remodeling available there. Ones a Democrat & the other is a Republican. What neither of them realize is their line of work was & still is insulated from illegals because of the education required.
Construction is FLOODED with illegals that drive down wages & create a situation where the companies that hire them can underbid projects by a wide margin. Thus it creates less work for legit businesses & lower wages for their AMERICAN employees because they are forced to compete in order to stay busy.
We have our share of that bullshit here in KC. No ******* way I'm going to intentionally subject myself to it in an area that has a MASSIVE amount of illegals.
DEPORT ALL THEM FUCKERS & BUILD THE DAMN WALL
Not really sure how it is in Texas but in my part of Florida we have seen a dramatic decrease in Mexicans available for work. Our painter who is a naturalized Guatemalan was complaining the other day that he cannot find any workers at all.
They get hired here in Mo easy peasy. A few years back I was remodeling the officers barracks at Whiteman Airforce base and after an impromptu security check on the base they carted off TWO SCHOOL BUSSES full of illegals & wanted criminals.
If the damn government can't even control them on a jobsite I dunno why anyone expects anymore of private businesses.
We need the wall. Everyone says that over stays on visas is the vast majority of our illegals and while that may be true that is not how most illegal Mexicans got here and they are the ones flooding the building industry.
The building industry pays pretty well for the level of education required and those jobs are slowly slipping away to the illegals. Pretty soon the only jobs left for Americans will require thousands of dollars in education to attain them.
We're shooting our poor right between they eyes so to speak and don't even see it.