{"id":17144,"date":"2025-04-05T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17144"},"modified":"2025-04-05T21:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:20:01","slug":"trump-immigration-crackdown-could-worsen-construction-worker-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17144","title":{"rendered":"Trump immigration crackdown could worsen construction worker shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The construction industry needs to attract 439,000 new workers this year to meet demand, otherwise costs will rise \u2014 putting some projects out of reach \u2014 per projections from the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group out Friday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Immigrants make up about 26% of the construction workforce, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/10\/21\/most-us-voters-say-immigrants-no-matter-their-legal-status-mostly-take-jobs-citizens-dont-want\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">census data<\/a>&nbsp;cited by Pew Research Center last fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;An estimated 13% of construction workers are undocumented&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/24\/trump-immigration-construction-industry\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/24\/trump-immigration-construction-industry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The construction industry needs to attract 439,000 new workers this year to meet demand, otherwise costs will rise \u2014 putting some projects out of reach \u2014 per projections from the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group out Friday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immigrants make up about 26% of the construction workforce, per census data cited by Pew Research Center last fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An estimated 13% of construction workers are undocumented&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/24\/trump-immigration-construction-industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1838,2189,2108,838,221,270,26,493,25,170],"class_list":["post-17144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-buildings","tag-construction","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-housing","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17145,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions\/17145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}