Dive summary:
- Construction-industry groups have been voicing their worry about the industry being treated differently – and more strictly – as a bipartisan group of U.S. senators are crafting a plan to reform U.S. immigration laws, and they are not seeing any changes they like.
- The most recent message from six industry groups tells the senators, informally known as the Gang of Eight, that commercial and residential builders "are deeply concerned with the size and the scope of the temporary guest worker program in the proposal now being drafted by the Gang of 8 Senators."
- The proposal would cut construction out of the national pool of guest-worker visas and set a a separate, 15,000 annual limit that the groups say is totally inadequate for an industry that employs 6 million peoples.
From the article:
"The construction industry is committed to finding U.S. workers to fill open positions in our industry. Unfortunately, that is not always possible...."
