Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

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Skono- It wasn't a guess...ha! I actually did some quick math. Keep in mind, it wasn't like those news clips you see of the mexicans leaping into the backs of pick up trucks in Home Depot parking lot, these are guys that I worked with every day for over 10 years in some cases. I considered many of them friends. I knew their spouses and kids.

Back in 2008 we were still blowin and goin pretty good when Arizona implemented the Legal Arizona Workers Act. All employers were required to check employees' legal status against a national data base. Subs were shitting bricks (no pun intended) and before this no one really gave a crap. On my list of go-to guys: Concrete sub poof gone...drywall poof...tile poof...stucco poof...gigantic landscaping companies gone...best framing company bye bye. The other half got creative, reshuffled workers into weird consulting companies, subbed to those companies and paid guys cash. Goofy stuff. It was the first time I got a real sense of the percentages. By the time SB1070 rolled out work was easily 50% off the peak and most companies had consolidated and merged to survive. The illegals that were still left finally just scattered.

lol great clip