The chief economist at the National Association of Realtors told reporters after the existing home sales report that home builders are having trouble starting projects because illegal immigrants can’t cross the border:
A new negative factor, he said, are the “politically controversial” complaints of construction labor shortages as many undocumented workers who were on the job last year apparently “can not get back in the country because of tight border conditions.”
So Americans either don’t want to work in construction or construction companies don’t want to pay full wages to workers?
Either way, when a system works that badly, what’s the point in having a system at all.
