Using dry walling as the example, IMO it is a craft. There are those that slop it together and rely on texturing to hide their poor workmanship. And there are those so good that there are no mistakes and texturing would be a sin covering their good work.
Case in point: In the mid-90’s we bought a new custom built house in Canada and had it moved to our new lot in the US. The city building inspector spent several minutes inspecting the drywall. He looked at it from different angles and using a flashlight from different lighting perspectives. I was getting worried, so I asked him what’s wrong. He said NOTHING. He said he’d never seen drywall this perfect before. He could not find one single seem where the drywall sheets were joined. Corners were perfect and not one screw could be observed.
Get rid of the illegals and the craftsman will reemerge if paid a good wage. Fine the living hell out of employers hiring illegals and wages will soon go up for American workers.
Another story about illegals that really pissed me off. For a few years I did oil field construction running heavy equipment. I got a very good wage and was proud of my work, as were my co-workers. My leftist sister from Kalifornia came to visit and I bragged about my job. She dismissed my pride with one little remark: “We have Mexicans in California that do that stuff”. To me it was very degrading.
This is a more subtle but perhaps ultimately more damaging effect of illegal immigration than wage reduction: the reintroduction of strong class prejudice in what was in all likelihood the least class-conscious major society in world history.
I went to high school with a girl who lived down the road from our place whose father was a law professor at the Ivy League university in the town where the high school was located. She, of course, got free tuition there, so that's where she went to get her degree.
I came back on summer break and went to fill up my car at a gas station in town and there she was, working as a cashier for her summer job.
It's just about unimaginable today that the daughter of an Ivy League law professor would work as a cashier at a gas station. That was considered a good life-lesson for the children of the upper middle class then and being a snob was a grievous social sin.
She was telling you that you did slave work.
Liberals love their slaves, when its not family.
It was shocking to watch how sheetrock work became so shoddy as the Mexicans took it over, and that applied and still applies to all the trades.
People overlook that immigrants from Europe were skilled craftsmen and/or used to being customers of skilled craftsmen, the best in the world, look at the cities and nations they came from and then compare that to Mexico, Mexicans and Latin Americans have never been known for being skilled at any of the things they do here, they came from places that were built as dumps with no standards or expertise with construction materials.
Mexican villagers that know nothing about landscaping replaced Japanese and white gardeners in California for example, and it shows.
Modern American immigrants come from cultures without knowledge or standards, yet took over those roles in one of the world’s richest most advances societies, from dirt floors and tin sheets roofing to advanced Western building and housing.