Can fence be built without immigrants? - Can the U.S. border fence be built on deadline without the help of foreign laborers? - (doubt it)

“Is it possible to construct a wall without undocumented workers?” asked Perry Vaughn, executive director of the Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America. “It’s probably borderline impossible to be honest with you.”

In recent years, the construction industry has seen a dramatic increase in undocumented foreign-born Hispanic workers, according to a Pew Hispanic report published in 2007.

Based on information collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, the report also found that foreign-born workers held one in five construction jobs in 2006.”*

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