I’m sorry to hear this and it makes me absolutely sick how this has been going on for decades destroying people like you just trying to make a living.
The neoCONs don’t care about hard working Americans like you - they only care about ‘muh corporations’ and if it’s good for ‘muh corporation’ to get cheap labor, then that’s all they care about.
Dont feel sorry for me. I am doing fine because I offer high quality. I am almost always in demand. I loose a lot of work because I am to busy.
I feel sorry for the younger generations that must establish themselves in this mess. It is much harder to raise yourself up when you are competing against your own government and the criminals they allow to break the law.
It is now much harder for the youth to get established. The cost of everything is going up except the wages of the lower skilled labor.
It is not just in construction but across the board. No one wants to roof at a cheap hourly rate. So they move to other easier jobs that pay the same low wages and compete with the people in those jobs. That forces the wages there to be lower since more people are competing for those low skilled jobs.
It just makes it harder for people to raise themselves up when our government stacks the deck against the new citizen workers.