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The Construction Industry Needs Undocumented Workers. So Why Is Nothing Being Done To Help Them?
BISNOW ^ | Patrick Sisson | August 8, 2023

Posted on 08/19/2023 4:09:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 08/19/2023 4:09:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Democrats and their slavery. Always the same.


2 posted on 08/19/2023 4:12:37 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: nickcarraway
So Illegals get everything they want, except if they work.
How does that make any sense?
Besides, a gallon of water is a lot cheaper than an IV bag.

3 posted on 08/19/2023 4:13:23 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: All

I’m sure people said the same thing about slaves too.


4 posted on 08/19/2023 4:14:20 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: momincombatboots

Why work when you can live off entitlements?


5 posted on 08/19/2023 4:14:43 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: nickcarraway

The production builders in northern NJ have been using beaners for 10 years.


6 posted on 08/19/2023 4:15:26 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: nickcarraway

Haven’t illegal aliens unionized yet? Big strike on the way.


7 posted on 08/19/2023 4:15:33 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: nickcarraway

I knew the houses I saw in my youth were imaginary.

Without undocumented workers they positively could not have been built.


8 posted on 08/19/2023 4:16:31 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: nickcarraway

How much construction would not be needed if we enforced our immigration laws?


9 posted on 08/19/2023 4:20:14 PM PDT by posterchild
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Here's an idea. Teach the young Negroes looting Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom how to do construction work.

Any takers?

10 posted on 08/19/2023 4:20:43 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Brian Griffin

It’s a shame. Builders dont want to pay normal wages/hire workers on the books anymore. All the taxes, and administrative BS that goes along with hiring workers is a huge drain on a business. Much easier to pay illegals who are much less expensive.


11 posted on 08/19/2023 4:21:25 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: nickcarraway

There is levied upon the income of every state a federal income tax
equal to 5 percent of the wealth of every person within the taxing nexus of the state that is in excess of $50 million
when that person’s wealth is not taxed by a state at a rate of at least 5 percent and the proceeds are not forwarded to the US Treasury.

All it takes is a few million more Democratic voters and Elizabeth Warren will get her wealth tax.


12 posted on 08/19/2023 4:25:32 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: nesnah
Longer than that. I was working for a builder in southern NJ 34 years and the Mexicans were all over the industry.

These parasites and wage depressers would put their mamasitas on welfare until they figured out how to game the system too.

13 posted on 08/19/2023 4:29:27 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: nickcarraway

demographics mean we’ll be looking at labor shortages in labor-intensive industries, essentially for the rest of our lives,

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So the answer is pay them $7.00 per hour, off the books of course and you’ll have all the laborers you need?

A few years back, 2015 I think, a hail storm beat the crap out of my roof, insurance co. said to get a couple of estimates, so I go to the yellow pages and start calling. The first thing I asked over the phone is, “do you have any laborers who can’t speak English?” No one did. So my roof got replaced by a crew of jabbering Mexicans.

I asked one of them, in Spanish, how much he made, he seemed surprised that I spoke Spanish but he did answer my question and that’s where I got my $7.00 per hour figure.


14 posted on 08/19/2023 4:32:49 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: nickcarraway; Jim Robinson
More insanity. Gawd, this site is a mess from its once logical conservatism. Think I'll register at TownHall, Breitbart, Newsmax, Rumble, X, or whoever keeps the crazies off their discussion forums. I'm not for censorship, but Jesus, the conspiracy fanatics are running amok on this board.

Really? Maui was caused by direct energy weapons? The Moon landing deniers are back. So many here have lost commonsense, logic, deductive reasoning, actual science, etc. I've read some are actually into this stupid and senseless pro-noun idiocy.

15 posted on 08/19/2023 4:33:06 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

In all the years I worked in construction, union and non union I never saw a black kid doing anything related to construction.

No plumbing, masonry , carpentry, electrical, running heavy equipment.

Nothing.


16 posted on 08/19/2023 4:34:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: nickcarraway

I certify, under penalty of federal law, that this material is for:
1. the repair of an existing structure that will not alter its floor plan, or
2. the construction of a new house of a size of less than 1600 square feet, or
3. use in an area zoned only for industrial, commercial or agricultural use.

If houses were limited in size, the available labor would be able to build more houses.


17 posted on 08/19/2023 4:37:00 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: Jonny7797

As someone who spent fifty years in commercial and institutional construction you would not believe the efforts I have spent and have seen expended in keeping illegal aliens off our job sites. Thousand of hours.

Ran a fifteen building jobsite over four city blocks on a military base over twenty years ago that was raided by 125 DOJ, INS, MPs and Fort police. Out of 365 workmen for me and my subcontractors they detained three guys. All three proved okay and were released. The raid was caused by one drywall sub on a competitors site who had a grudge against my drywaller.

Residential and apartment builders were a whole different cup of tea.


18 posted on 08/19/2023 4:38:41 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: A Navy Vet; nickcarraway

Are you in the right thread? Because the article was about undocumented labor, and your post was about everything but that.


19 posted on 08/19/2023 4:40:35 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: nickcarraway

OMG, so they bring them in here to take jobs away from the legal citizens in this country. go ahead and vote Democrat again. they could care less about you the LEGAL AMERCIAN citizen.


20 posted on 08/19/2023 4:41:25 PM PDT by alaskamomma
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