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It's not only subprime mortgages made to illegals...it's illegals building the homes. It happened right in my neighborhood...an empty $350K house sits vacant. It was built entirely by Mexican labor and the prospective buyer is in Chapter 13. She's in bankruptcy basically, she told me, because the house couldn't meet a basic building code and pass inspection but she signed a contract that ignored that fact and the builder went scott free after a court battle. I went through the home with her. The gas fireplace was sealed with no way to get pipes to the gas logs, the master bath jacuzzi pump was sealed in cement too. The hard wood oak floors are different colors as the laborers mixed the boards for the living room up with the ones for the upper bedroom. All of the dry wall had to be torn out and replaced after inspectors noticed that the wiring was wrong (it still is). There is apparently no good way now to hook up plumbing to the septic field as it hasn't been built yet so piping will have to be redug and flooring reholed. All of the siding had to be taken off after workers sided up a perfectly good brick facade...the house is a beautiful mess. Meanwhile, her the only way to keep her contingency home used to seal the deal for the "dream home" was to declare bankruptcy.

Believe it or not, practically the same thing happened to a shopping complex right outside the guarded gate to my neighborhood. The shell of a store was being bricked up by Mexicans by a Mexican builder. The entire wall collapsed. He then hightailed it back across the border and has never been heard of again and the bank that loaned him the money was left holding the bag.

If there are inspectors on this job everyone of the problems you cite should have been caught. For instance, the wiring should have been inspected before the sheet rock was hung.

As for illegals building, there are very few white or black contractors left who know how to build anything.