"We, right now, this year, need 430,000 workers [and] over the next couple years by 2023, we’re going to need probably another million," said Michael Bellaman, the president and CEO of the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group. He continued:
We need a merit-based, market-based, rule-of-law worker visa system that provides the necessary opportunities for [foreign] people that want to work in the United States, as well as for our employers to take those trained [foreign] individuals that have spent three years [working] in their companies, with the opportunity to sponsor them to a pathway to citizenship, a legal form of status, something more permanent, that will be a value to our industry.
The demand is a deep betrayal of fellow Americans by the business interests, responded Roy Beck, the former journalist who founded NumbersUSA to oppose the outsourcing of jobs to migration.
"There’s an ethical bond that connects" Americans, he said, "but what people from George Bush, especially George W. Bush, on through President Joe Biden
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have done — with some exception for President Trump — is to disconnect and basically free the elites of this country from any sense of ethical obligation to their fellow citizens."
The betrayal is sharper because "construction jobs have become the great prize for Americans who don’t have a college education," he said, adding:
A large percentage of the manufacturing jobs that created middle-class life have disappeared, but construction work remains. It can’t be shipped overseas. It’s the prize for our American workers who don’t have college degrees which by the way, two-thirds of Americans don’t have college degrees. So this idea is one that basically says, "The middle class belongs only to those who get a college degree," and we’ve seen just one occupation after another [that] the robber barons of our age have decided they’re not going to let Americans have.
American workers have been hard hit by the eagerness of construction CEOs to hire low-wage crews of economic
Blaine Taylor, the whistleblower, said the construction industry in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, once offered a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the late 1980s. Fast-forward to 2018 — nearly two decades into when illegal aliens began flooding the industry — he now says that wages have fallen by more than half, standing at just $11 an hour.