Instead, those jobs tend to be filled by native-born steelworkers and tradesmen who belong to the city's unions. "But if you go out into the suburbs, into the residential housing developments, much of that type of construction is done by illegal immigrants. Whose jobs did they take? They didn't take anybody's jobs because other workers simply weren't available to do that work."
Build it and they will come!
Wharton's Anderson goes even further, arguing that, on balance, illegal immigrants contribute far more to the U.S. economy than they take. "Their employers pay Social Security taxes for all of them," though they don't receive benefits, he points out.I'm sure, on phony SS numbers? I would expect that most get paid under the table, in cash - no bother with taxes.
That should be enough to convince anyone of the papacy of thought Anderson offers on this subject.
What a pantload that quote is, the illegals strted invading the commercial construction field in the late 1980s and drove the legitimate contractors and employees out of the business.
I had to close my 56 year old construction co. or hire illegals for cash as did a lot of other people that I know.