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Case in point: I had some flooring done recently. American guy said it was a 3-day job. We scheduled him, but then he flaked out, wouldn’t come out to the job for one reason and then another. Finally got fed up, contacted a Mexican guy Friday night, him and one other dude showed up the next Monday morning, they did the job in one day, and they did a great job.

I had a driveway extension job, called a guy that my neighbor recommended from some work he had done (patio extension, driveway, and extended roof over patio). He shows up in a very nice 1 ton truck. Spoke good ole country boy english because he was a God fearing american. Came back on time with one other american black dude and knocked it it out while I was at work and charged a very fair price for the job.

So, now what.

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Posted by TrueTiger

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Posted on 7/22/26 at 6:36 am to Goombaw

Amnesty ain't the answer.

Legal work permits where they have to go back every few months and cannot bring spouse or family, maybe.

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Posted by CDUBTX

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Posted on 7/22/26 at 6:46 am to Goombaw

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Anyone making this about just “cheap labor” isn’t in the construction world - the American labor force is severely compromised. I’m not saying amnesty is necessarily the answer, but we cannot lose the guys that are actually doing the hardest work in America today.

You’re not wrong but in my opinion we need that shortage to fix the problem. Americans have become lazy and entitled. We send all of our young able bodied men to college to waste four years of their life and their parents money instead of learning a trade or some useful skill. At least 50% of the kids in college have no business being there at all. It’s time we change that. If you give laborers amnesty, you’re looking to replace the middle class with foreigners.

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Posted by Mariner

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Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 7/22/26 at 6:47 am to Goombaw

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Anyone making this about just “cheap labor” isn’t in the construction world - the American labor force is severely compromised. I’m not saying amnesty is necessarily the answer, but we cannot lose the guys that are actually doing the hardest work in America today.

I'm building a house and the laborers work hard. I feed them both illegals ( I assume) and Americans lunch most days. They are extremely grateful and polite. All the Latinos want to do is work, provide for their family and go to church on Sunday.

It is a dilemma though. On one hand I love seeing opportunity being given to good hard working people. On the other hand there is a process that they should be pursuing. Also I highly doubt they are paying taxes and that is a problem for me, especially when I worked offshore with rural Americans of all races struggling to provide as they make too much money to get free stuff but have to fund the poor and lazy.

The whole process now is so broken that it seems the only way to fix it is to go nuclear. I just wish there was an organized and formal incentive process that stated you are here illegally, so if you want to stay you have to achieve multiple steps for amnesty which involves a lot of work, discipline, and sacrifice on the illegal's part, all while having a timeline to do it in. If you fail, you have to leave. That weeds out the bad and keeps the good.

Latinos work all day on the house. Americans show up for a few hours and leave. I still love the Americans as they do quality work.

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