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Small Businesses Lament There Are Too Few Mexicans in U.S., Not Too Many
Wall Street Journal via MSN.com ^ | 11/25/2016 | Miriam Jordan, Santiago PĂ©rez

Posted on 11/25/2016 11:33:34 AM PST by dirtboy

n Dallas, the King of Texas Roofing Co. says it has turned down $20 million worth of projects in the past two years because it doesn’t have enough workers.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Joe Hargrave is expanding his successful Tacolicious chain of restaurants, but says he is building smaller ones due to “a massive shortage of restaurant workers.”

And in Florida, Steve Johnson, who harvests oranges for the citrus industry, says, “Right now, if I had 80 guys, I could put every one of them to work.”

As hiring accelerates and the labor market tightens thanks to a steady U.S. recovery, employers who need low-skilled workers are increasingly struggling to fill vacancies. One big reason: Mexican workers, who form the labor backbone of industries like hospitality, construction and agriculture, are in short supply.

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Many business owners who rely on low-skilled labor say the real trouble is too few Mexicans heading north, not too many. “Without Mexican labor our industry is at a standstill,” says Nelson Braddy Jr., the owner of King of Texas Roofing Co, which is helping build a sprawling new Toyota North American headquarters in a Dallas suburb. He says he would hire 60 roofers right away if he could find them. “It’s the worst I have seen in my career,” he adds.

Annual inflows of undocumented immigrants from Mexico have slowed to about 100,000 a year since 2009, from about 350,000 a year in the mid-2000s and more than half a million in the late 1990s and early 2000s, estimates the Pew Research Center. Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol of Mexicans and other foreigners entering illegally declined to 337,117 last year, the least since 1971.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; business; helpwanted; mexicans; texas
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Maybe try paying more to get American workers? Nah, supply and demand should never work the other way, just in favor of the Chamber of Commerce members.
1 posted on 11/25/2016 11:33:34 AM PST by dirtboy
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I just imagine that these “poor businessmen” can go to DC, place ads, and get all the “workers” they want between now and 1/20/17. Maybe they can get some “displaced US Attorney’s” as well.


2 posted on 11/25/2016 11:36:05 AM PST by vette6387
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To: dirtboy

White kids of privilege wont work now a days


3 posted on 11/25/2016 11:36:14 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: dirtboy

illegal immigration is the new slavery.


4 posted on 11/25/2016 11:36:16 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: dirtboy

There are more than enough able bodied workers on the welfare roles to do the work - if they were willing. The question is: how to motivate them to do the work?


5 posted on 11/25/2016 11:37:40 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Sounds like the same pro-slavery arguments prior to the civil war.


6 posted on 11/25/2016 11:37:53 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: dirtboy

Sure small businesses want more illegal aliens. We should believe the CoC because it is a truthful, patriotic organization. In a better world the CoC would be tried for treason, convicted and hung.


7 posted on 11/25/2016 11:38:07 AM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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How about american teenagers put down their video games and work after school. How about schools let Seniors get school credit for working half day or 1 day a week or pay higher wages so americans will do the work.


8 posted on 11/25/2016 11:38:17 AM PST by Engedi
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I blame food stamps


9 posted on 11/25/2016 11:38:24 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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He says he would hire 60 roofers right away if he could find them.

Maybe if he was willing to pay more than illegal-alien wages, more potential roofers would appear.

10 posted on 11/25/2016 11:38:57 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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I am just not buying this.

Perhaps if we had kept up the tradition of making teenagers have jobs during high school and college, ....


11 posted on 11/25/2016 11:39:13 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: al baby

As opposed to non white kids?


12 posted on 11/25/2016 11:39:39 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Hmmmmm. How about as the job market improves as we report millions of illegal’s we start cutting back welfare?


13 posted on 11/25/2016 11:39:46 AM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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Uhhh. No. He just doesn’t want to pay enough to get unemployed Americans to work. Also. It is vey comfortable to be unemployed in the US.


14 posted on 11/25/2016 11:39:47 AM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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I’ve always believed that schools should worry less about extra-curricular and more about students building a genuine work history. If students could earn credit by working at a job or running their own business, I am certain that there would be less special snowflakes.


15 posted on 11/25/2016 11:40:39 AM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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They are too busy with their phones and music.

So glad I didn’t grow up with a phone attached to my body every waking moment.


16 posted on 11/25/2016 11:40:44 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Not where I live

Nashville metro


17 posted on 11/25/2016 11:40:49 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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Since he likes hiring Mexicans so much, maybe he should open a roofing company in Mexico.


18 posted on 11/25/2016 11:41:39 AM PST by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (KAL 007))
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To: elpadre

There are more than enough able bodied workers on the welfare roles to do the work - if they were willing. The question is: how to motivate them to do the work?


Yep, you see the rioters in places like Ferguson and Baltimore, and you think, do these people have jobs? They are not disabled, they could be doing some sort of productive job in our economy.

Do we have job training programs for roofers or other building trades? I really don’t know how any of that recruitment works. But seems to me, with some basic training, lots of idle people could be doing productive work and earn some good money. What is the missing link? Lack of a work ethic in ghetto culture? Inability to follow directions? Lack of soft skills such as knowing you need to show up for work on time? Illiteracy?


19 posted on 11/25/2016 11:41:50 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Try paying a fair wage for the type of work wanted, then go out and recruit them.
I understand that every wetback is a master of every trade imaginable (just ask them), and you might have to do some training or provide some supervision to an American worker, but they are out there.


20 posted on 11/25/2016 11:42:50 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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