No workers on any construction site in midlands SC

[yidnar]

Well, plenty of jobs in South Carolina...get your ass down there....

Or are you going to welch on that promise too?

I said I worked construction for yrs when I was younger .. work on your reading comprehension ..

 

[1srelluc]

Many of these jobs staffed by immigrants are jobs Americans can't, or won't, do for a living. You won't see a rush of white and black Americans to meat packing plants or to pick agriculture in California.

Pickers....That's true.

Low-payed Illegals REPLACED Americans in the meat-packing and poultry industries. There were no shortage of US workers in those industries at all because the pay was good.

The likes of Tyson (in my AO) just shut their plants down one at a time, fired the American workers, kept the supervisors and maintenance folks.

Then they brought in illegals, and when they got up to speed they fired all the American supervisors and put Hispanic supervisors in their place.

Basically the only Americans left were the maintenance folks....I bet they are gone now too.

 

[whitehall]

ICE hysteria? Can't they find American citizens to work in Construction in S.C.?

 

[Zincwarrior]

ICE hysteria? Can't they find American citizens to work in Construction in S.C.?

They can if paid appropriately.

 

[yidnar]

Holy crap, learn some English.

 

[ozro]

This borders on the off-topic, however I believe it demonstrates a point. I heard this before I retired in 2006. I used to do my own construction inspections, didn't trust any of the technicians to do it. I heard a version of this joke prior to 2006.

'On the morning of February 23, 1836, Jim Bowie climbed a ladder and looked over the parapet of the Alamo to see a many many Mexicans headed towards the fort.
He turned to look at Davy Crockett, who was holding the ladder, and asked "Who ordered concrete?"'

 

[80zephyr]

Historically, construction was a key and excellent major industry for hard working working class whites, blacks, and hispanics to achieve a good middle class life. They worked hard, did good work, and were paid well.

As a union carpenter I can attest to that.

 

[80zephyr]

So much for the “they’re taking jobs Americans want” arument eh?

Housing...which is already at all time unaffordability..will see higher prices as supply dries up even further.

Yep...this is what you voted for...paying more for nothing other than not wanting to see brown people. Put another way; you’re a special sort of dumbass.

Who will pick our cotton?

 

[candycorn]

Who will pick our cotton?

If South Texas is any indication. Nobody

 

[debbiedowner]

As workers in key jobs get arrested and removed from the workforce, the end result will be higher prices. The tariffs and the reduction of workers in the agriculture, construction, landscaping, and other sectors (many jobs Americans don't want, like processing facilties for meat) will force owners to pay more for workers or scale back, both of which means you pay more.

There goes all those new manufacturing plants bringing jobs back to US.

 

[candycorn]

They can if paid appropriately.

I doubt you’d see the same numbers of workers regardless of pay.