Immigrants may shift to new jobs – Officials say new law, weak economy aren’t driving illegal aliens from state – South Carolina From: greenvilleonline.com
Tagged: Professor, South CarolinaPosted on: July 13th, 2008
Doug Woodward, a University of South Carolina economics professor who has studied immigrant labor in the state, said a decline in construction has shifted immigrants from that field to others, preventing any chilling effect from deportation increases or parts of a tough new state immigration law that have gone into effect.
That’s particularly true in the landscaping business, said Steve Crump, the president of the state’s nursery and landscaping association, where three or four immigrants a day are calling his company looking for work.”*
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