Cuellar and Gonzalez Call for Legal Workforce Solutions at South Texas Builders Forum
· Texas Border Business
During the South Texas Builders Association forum in Edinburg, U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez emphasized the need for bipartisan solutions to address workforce shortages and immigration reform in the construction industry. Gonzalez highlighted that immigrants constitute about 30% of the national construction workforce, with higher percentages in Texas and South Texas. He introduced the Safe American Workforce Act to provide legal work authorization for long-term residents without legal issues. Cuellar advocated for expanding the H-2B visa program and discussed the importance of collaboration between lawmakers and builders to tackle these challenges and improve housing affordability.
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