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How about construction worker? That used to be a highly-paid profession. Try competing against people who will live 20 to a rented house, and consistently under bid their competition. If you think this problem isn't coming home to you, you're sadly mistaken. Every professional walk of life in America is impacted by subsidized labor imported from the third world.

How about construction worker? That used to be a highly-paid profession. Try competing against people who will live 20 to a rented house, and consistently under bid their competition.

Well constantly underbidding competition is what competition is all about. My father used to pick cotton in Oklahoma but the blacks would pick for 5 cents a bale while the whites needed 10 cents to live on. He just went and found a new line of work.

100% correct.

I once worked in construction, even saved up to start my own roofing contracting business.

Worked it for 11 years, and while nothing in Florida is as well paid as the NE USA, that is mainly because of very low taxes, and it being a right to work state.

I was paying my workers between $10-$17 per square (thats 100 square feet), depending on experience.

Well, that's over. - A flood of illegals that work for $5 per HOUR (assuming they can put down 2 square per hour = $2.50 per square) ran us, and most others here, right out of the market.

Of course nobody cares that they are not legal and the laws regarding such employment are a joke.

Cheaper goods? Give me a break.
The median housing price went from $35,000 to $150,000 in that time.

My employees went on unemployment or left the state, looking for work elsewhere, while the illegals sent their money back to Mexico and lived in a van. You had to stand in line behind them at the bank every Friday as they did so.

Great stimulus for the American worker...