Agreed. In less than a generation I've seen drywallers cut from nearly $20 per hour (not far behind electricians and sheet metal fitters) to about $10 per hour, most of whom do not speak any English and none of whom will be on the job site 60 seconds after an INS truck rolls up. The quality of drywall work has suffered accordingly. In many areas this is also affecting the more skilled trades as well, as a non-union company will hire one licensed journeyman electrician and two dozen illegal aliens.
These people didn't suddenly decide their jobs were beneath them, they were simply priced out of the market, to the point that a job at Lowes or WalMart was a better option for them.
I posted this below before, but don't seem to get much of a response from the open border crowd.
"Illegals do the jobs Americans won't do....at that price...
There is a reason the labor market is called a market.
Plenty of construction jobs are filled by cheaper illegal alien labor. Our bathroom was remodeled a few years back. The painter was a LEGAL Mexican immigrant. He said 20 years ago he ran a
crew of wallboard guys in Houston that worked on new homes. He had plenty of work. Then, a flood of cheap illegal alien labor poured in . They would underbid him by half sometimes. He had a mortgage, wife, kids, etc and he then had to compete with guys living 10 to an
apartment. You should have heard the names he called them. I had to calm him down. If he had been white, he would have been called a racist.
Funny how legal immigrants that come here, learn the language, and assimilate into our culture all of the sudden turn into self hating racist pigs"