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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...

Good luck to you, sir. I'm sorry that you had to lose your business to criminal trash employers and the border-jumping criminals they employ. If you substitute "concrete business" for "roofing businss" your post is identical to what is happening to my 2 brothers in Tulsa. Honest contractors can't compete any more. They've virtually been put out of business by illegals and the scumbags that employ them.

This "jobs Americans won't do" BS the President keeps spouting makes my blood boil. My whole extended family works in construction and the trades. In my family, there are sheet metal fabricators, welders, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, heavy equipment operators, concrete workers, carpet and flooring technicians, factory workers, small farmers and ranchers, auto mechanics, airplane mechanics and diesel mechanics to list just a few occupations of the men in my extended family - and many of these men own their own businesses. My husband, brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles and cousins DO these "jobs Americans won't do" every single day, so I KNOW Americans are still working at these kinds of jobs. Maybe every American working one of these "jobs Americans won't do" should bombard the White House with letters, faxes and phone calls until the President stops spouting this obvious falsehood in support of criminal alien invaders.