Who will build new homes in Trump’s America?
CNNCNN — Duewight Garcia overstayed his tourist visa to the US in 2019 after he said run-ins with gangs and his student activism in Honduras made him feel it was unsafe to return. “The majority of employees in construction are Hispanic and most don’t have documents,” Garcia said of his experience working in construction. But if you’re going from 50%, which it is in places like California and Texas, to a much lower share, that could have really big shocks to the housing market,” Frost said. “The only people who want to do this work are immigrants.” Marek said he believes in securing the southern border, but he disagrees that Trump’s plan of mass deportations is a workable solution. “Evidence suggests that undocumented labor is a complement to domestic labor: an indirect outcome of deporting undocumented construction workers is net job loss for US-born workers, especially in higher-skilled occupations,” according to a study published by three housing economists that was released in March.
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