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Ariz. homebuilders worry about labor shortage
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Saturday, June 30, 2012 | Associated Press Staff

Posted on 06/30/2012 5:13:28 PM PDT by thecodont

PHOENIX (AP) — Some leaders in Arizona's homebuilding industry are concerned about a potential labor shortage following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold part of the state's controversial immigration law known as SB1070.

The bill's passage two years ago led thousands of illegal immigrants to pack up and leave. That was when the housing market had crashed, but now the market is recovering.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the provision in the law that allows police to try to determine the immigration status of people they stop or arrest if they have a reasonable suspicion that they're in the country illegally. That worries some in the homebuilding industry who fear that workers will be too fearful to show up in large numbers.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; housingindustry; illegalimmigration; sb1070
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To: thecodont

They’re only worried that they’re going to lose their dirt cheap labor, and will have to once again hire REAL AMERICANS to work for realistic wages.

Don’t get me started on this subject. My family has suffered tremendously, due to illegal alien labor in the construction field.


21 posted on 06/30/2012 6:25:31 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: napscoordinator
I DEFINITELY question this articles viability

AP? They have all the credibility of Joe Isuzu.
I have no doubt this Democrat AP "reporter" conceived a liberal talking point and then went out kicking over rocks to try to find a "homebuilder" - - any "homebuilder" - - who would give her some quotes to back up her talking point..

22 posted on 06/30/2012 6:27:50 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: thecodont

Hard to believe they are still building homes in Arizona. Or anywhere for that matter.


23 posted on 06/30/2012 6:41:31 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: thecodont

Well boo hoo, ain’t that a beach. To hear the libs and LSM, (but I am being redundant) all the illegals were out in the fields doing stoop labor for 50 cents an hour.

These rotten building contractors went for cheap illegal labor to force out higher paid American citizens. Now the creeps just might have to cut their profit margins and hire Americans again.


26 posted on 06/30/2012 6:59:44 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Don't ever think that the reason I am peaceful is because I forgot how to be violent)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Some of us think keeping slaves ought to be a capital offense and we look forward to resuming the punishment for that behavior.

Now, "living wage"? I think that's an euphemism for paying a fair market rate ~ where there are no illegals around.

28 posted on 06/30/2012 7:06:56 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: thecodont

Well, they should not have underbid the project.

When Americans with “real skills” come on the job they won’t use framing hatchets to make things fit, it will be right the first time.

Sure, the cost of building a house will rise with a rise in wages but the low bidders will quickly go out of business and the better, more professional builders will flourish when the cheap builders who used illegal labor fail.

American work for American Citizens should be the battle cry throughout America in all trades.


29 posted on 06/30/2012 7:23:42 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: thecodont

awwwwwww..../s

How about you hire some of the UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS?


30 posted on 06/30/2012 7:29:45 PM PDT by Conservaliberty (25 and conservative. I guess I have no heart, Oh, well, makes shooting the bad guys easier.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

The suicide remark was uncalled for and I expect will soon make your ill considered remark disappear.

If you don’t like “living wage” then say “non-black-market market wage.” Means the same thing.


32 posted on 06/30/2012 7:40:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: thecodont

Please note the source!!


33 posted on 06/30/2012 7:47:51 PM PDT by doc
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To: thecodont

Please note the source!!


34 posted on 06/30/2012 7:48:55 PM PDT by doc
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To: muawiyah

That is the sense I get. It’s a nod to the fact that it will also be better — and for the benefit of Americans.


35 posted on 06/30/2012 8:04:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: napscoordinator

A SF paper quotes the AP who claims that the housing market is recovering but the AZ anti-illegal law may have a negative impact AND YOU DARE QUESTION THE ARTICLE’S VALIDITY?


36 posted on 06/30/2012 9:27:24 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (No offense to drunken sailors)
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To: Clock King
Slave owners worry there won’t be enough slaves.

Precisely.

37 posted on 06/30/2012 9:34:28 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: thecodont

At the height of the housing boom I saw hand-lettered signs in Spanish posted at new subdivisions, advertising for electricians. This probably resulted a few fires compounding the misery of all those foreclosed homeowners a few years later.

Let them pay what it takes to hire Americans.


38 posted on 06/30/2012 9:44:33 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: thecodont; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
Some leaders...

Yeah, the ones who thrive on using illegal labor.

Ping!

Click the keyword Aliens to see more illegal alien, border security, and other related articles.

39 posted on 06/30/2012 10:15:38 PM PDT by HiJinx (He who controls the water, controls life.)
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To: thecodont

We have it is reported 23 million people jobless, out of 23 million people there are no qualified workers who can build homes ?


40 posted on 07/01/2012 7:02:45 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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