American workers who’d benefit:
1. Blacks
2. Truck drivers
3. Dry-wall guys
4. Roofers
5. Builders
6. Fast-food workers
7. Hotel housekeeping
8. Restaurant workers
9. Farm workers
10. Equipment operators
I think the vanishing of 15 to 20 million would impact the housing markets a bit, so builders/roofers/dry-wall guys may have a rough go of it for a while, as there are already more homes in some areas than buyers, but it would recover.
3. Dry-wall guys
Funny you mentioned that. I went to Lowes the other day for some painting supplies. All the signs were in Spanish! I live in NJ
Landscapers and painters.
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I look at your list and consider only one of the many industries. The restaurant business. Those of you who are old enough to remember, thirty or more years ago, who were the kitchen staff? I’ll give you a hint. They were not white, they were not hispanic and they were not aisian. And these were considered good jobs at the time. So who, in the list you have provided, really got the shaft? I’ll let you come to your own conclusion. And yes I realize that ethic food restaurants were different.
Add suppliers / manufacturers / maintainers of automation equipment.
11. Shipyard workers
Concrete finishers, most of all.
Good list; at this point the de facto amnesty here in NJ has led to a situation where Americans who can’t speak Spanish can’t get jobs as bank tellers, cashiers, or anything else in customer service. Those jobs increasingly go to the anchor babies, born here (and therefore citizens) fluent in both tongues.
I’ve seen people complaining that anyone over 50 can’t find work; increasingly, inability to speak Spanish is costing many younger Americans jobs as well.