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Study: San Antonio construction industry likely to feel pain from immigration crackdown

A third of the city’s construction workers are foreign-born, and worksites are already losing staff due to fear of enforcement sweeps.

Trump administration’s intensifying immigration crackdown will likely delay San Antonio construction projects and hike costs due to the industry’s high reliance on foreign-born labor, new data suggests. The number of foreign-born construction workers has consistently risen for more than a decade, and some 34.5% of San Antonio’s workforce was born outside the U.S., a new […]

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