Trump wants to build a wall as Texas developers complain about shortage of Mexican laborers to build

[DonViejo]

While presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is leading in the polls in Texas by promising to build a wall between the Lone Star state and Mexico, home builders in the area are complaining about a labor shortage that is keeping them from getting homes built and is driving up costs.

The problem? Skilled Mexican laborers who have gone home and haven’t returned, reports WFAA.

Lacking skilled tradesmen, the completion of homes under construction in North Texas is falling further and further behind, adding up to $7,000 per month to the cost of a home.

Part of the problem, explains Ted Wilson of Residential Strategies, is that many subcontractors shut down during the recession and a lot of their workers returned to Mexico and aren’t coming back despite plenty of work being available.

“It used to be the deal the electrician was finishing, the sheetrocker was stepping over him to button up the house and now you go by and there will be no trucks in front of the house for a week or so until the next trade shows up,” explained Wilson. For home builder Kevin Egan, that means he’s only completing about half the houses he needs to finish for buyers — driving up his costs and theirs.

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[tonyt53]

1. Odd how nobody is asking Perdue and Tyson, plus the others about who will work for them

Nobody is asking the largest produce companies about who will work their crops for them if the Hispanics are gone. The food industry is strongly dependent upon the use of immigrants, and mostly illegal immigrants. They really are doing the jobs that white Americans won't even consider doing, and they are being treated like crap while doing those jobs. Lots of tobacco still being raised in KY, but very little of the work is being done by white people. Mostly illegal Hispanics again.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. Wait! I thought dem messy-cans was takin' Mericans's jobs!

[kimbutgar]

3. Don the con complains about jobs going away but hy don't his supporters work on these

Jobs instead of attending is daytime rallies? Why aren't the home builders hiring these white xenophobic people? Possibility because they want to pay the undocumented under the table perhaps? Wink wink. No FICA, no taxes to state and local and no disability. These home builders are really not patriotic Americans. Profits over people like their idol Don the con.

[alarimer]

4. Who's Going to Build Your Wall?

[Throd]

5. Perhaps those developers could pay a decent wage.

They have gotten too comfortable exploiting undocumented people who can't complain.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Around here all the concrete pouring and finishing are done but Latin American immigrants

They do all the good tile work as well. If Trump builds a wall he will have to hire Mexicans to do the concrete work.

BTW that is not all that they do here. It is just that they do 98% of that work. They do farm work, commercial and residential landscaping and gardening. They are highly skilled and take great pride in their work. Find tRump supporters who do as well.