Ronnie Cavazos, a builder from the Rio Grande Valley, should be thriving. Demand for residential housing in this booming corner of south Texas is robust and his order book is full. The only problem: there aren’t enough workers to do the job.
“Right now we’re going through some really hard times trying to find labour,” says Cavazos, who’s based in Edinburg, a small city just 15 miles north of the Mexican border. “Projects are getting delayed and loans are having to be extended.”
He blames Immigration and Customs Enforcement. For months, ICE agents have been swooping on construction sites and detaining the undocumented workers who make up a large chunk of the labour force in the Texas borderlands.
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