Pre 2007 really? That is how far back your memory stretches? Childern say the strangest things.

Also, if supporting wages is the goal, shouldn’t we support Unions? For America?

Great GB! What a sterling endorsement for the donald. Wow, why not bribe city councils, mayors, and judges to invoke eminent domain to force aging widows to turn over their homes for limo parking lots? What is next? Trump wants to build a golf course on my family’s Minnesota lake front property, and I am supposed to rollover, piss my pants, and pant like a beta dog because the donald is the alpha dog? NO THANK YOU, the wind may blow but I do not bend with the wind.

You both are seemingly unaware of the damage illegals do in lowering wages in my corner of flyover country. It is significant. Plus, the strain they put on school districts and medical services seems absent from your calculations.

blert, especially. Electrical and plumbing contractors hire illegals to do the grunt work. They have foremen to make sure the work is up to code. Many illegal hispanics are highly skilled. True, many hispanics are not elevator inspectors, but now you are talking about how many union members can dance on the head of a pin.

Cruz helped make Trump by legitimizing him. He and every other candidate them hoped to make it a race between them and Trump, a Mexican standoff that doomed every non Trump candidate.

At this point I’m not sure if I want the Cruz faction to lose the general so they will finally sober up or the Trump faction to be embarrassed by a crushing loss so they leave altogether.

Decisions, decisions.

I’m in California.

My vote never counts past county level.

Of course djt realizes that the contractors on his projects hire illegals, and thus lower his construction costs.

That’s the current environment, as a businessman, he can’t change it and I doubt he loses a moment’s sleep over it.

Which doesn’t mean that he MAY not realize that short term benefits have lead to long term negatives for the country and left unchecked, will also negatively impact him in the future. Thus his desire to bring immigration and migration under control. He wants to continue to work within a system that he understands, not flounder in an out of control environment.

On the other hand, he may be entirely motivated by an animal cunning that recognizes the mood of the country and like any demagogue, gets in front of it and means to ride it to greater power.

It can even be both.

“To answer your question about construction firms hiring illegals…. illegals are paid 3, 4, 5 times less than legal workers.

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It’s not that extreme — but merely being half-off is MORE than enough to sweep the board.

One must also adjust for the sloth and wastage ALWAYS to be found with immigrant construction gangs.

Since labor expense TOTALLY dominates the expense of any contractor, even a 30% discount is enough to seal the deal.

You will not find illegals — typically — in skilled trades:

COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL & INSTITUTIONAL:

Electrical
HVAC
Plumbing
Elevators
DataCom

etc.

So Trump’s projects largely will NOT be hiring illegals.

They are literally too bumbling to perform the work — even if they worked for free.

( Re-work to correct errors is a back-breaker in the construction trades. It’s normally the difference between profit and loss.

( Hence the obsession in the trades with seasoned foremen, the primary line of defense.

( Their role is so intense that they last about as long as NFL linebackers.

Many of Trump’s projects received government favors.

The tit for tat is normally that the project MUST pay Davis-Bacon wages.

So, Trump actually has a STRONG under pinning from the construction trades.

If you’re building in Manhattan, you use union labor for everything. Period.

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Illegals utterly dominate TRACT HOUSING.

That’s it.

Here and there, you’ll see illegals in Small Scale Commercial:

Drywall
Plaster (taping and mudding of drywall)
Tile
Flooring of all types
Concrete
Pools
Insulation ( extreme turn-over as it’s less fun than coal mining )
Roofing
Ditching (manually) no-one puts illegals on machines
Framing in wood…but uncommon in thin steel.

{ It’s the skill level required. They don’t have skills.

Also delivery drivers for construction materials.

Trump’s projects are — uniformly — TOO BIG to permit illegal labor.

Trump could count on a wildcat strike.

The illegals could count on being beaten to the edge of death.

And… they’d have no-one to turn to.

Those born outside the US would EXPECT no succor from the authorities.

Every step they take is like Dr. Richard Kimble — the fugitive.