Trump’s Clashing Goals: More Housing, Fewer Immigrants
The U.S. faces a historic housing crisis exacerbated by a severe labor shortage in construction, a shortage rooted in decades of policy and economic shifts that transformed the industry from a unionized, American-born workforce to one heavily dependent on immigrant labor—now under threat
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