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.
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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.
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..
Hard to believe they are still building homes in Arizona. Or anywhere for that matter.
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.
Now, "living wage"? I think that's an euphemism for paying a fair market rate ~ where there are no illegals around.
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.
awwwwwww..../s
How about you hire some of the UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS?
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.
Please note the source!!
Please note the source!!
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.
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?
Precisely.
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.
Yeah, the ones who thrive on using illegal labor.
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We have it is reported 23 million people jobless, out of 23 million people there are no qualified workers who can build homes ?
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