Regarding the Construction Labor Shortage in Detroit

[Johnnny5]

Only about 1% of Michigan residents are illegal immigrants. A portion of those are going to be people who were here legitimately but whose visas have expired [[but who don't plan on staying in the US long-term). 1% is not really a number that's going to have any big effects on anything.

The reason there are less construction workers is because it's an unappealing job.

So what makes these fields less appealing than they were a generation ago? I'll just answer my own question and state that it's always been hard work [[Even more so in the past). It's being expected to do hard work with insufficient financial compensation that makes it "unappealing". I'll also say that if you don't think that illegal immigration is having an out sized impact on the construction industry in Michigan, you probably haven't been on many construction sites in the past few decades.