The problem is, are Americans willing to pay more for American labor?
“The problem is, are Americans willing to pay more for American labor?”
Legacy Americans have to get licensed and contract directly, getting the Gringo contractor’s significant markup themselves.
Two of my neighbor’s relatives are husband & wife flooring contractors.
If the quality is superior to the work of the illegals. Yes. Same crap quality for a higher price? No.
When it was just people coming here to work one could make the argument that society benefitted from lower prices. Now that it is multigeneration large families the taxpayer picks up feeding, housing, schooling, and medical care for the low wage workers and kin. Taxpayers get lower construction costs but higher taxes which inflate prices on everything else. Only person making out is the person hiring the low wage workers.