Yep:
"Immigrants make up 26.3% of the U.S. construction workforce—and roughly one in three tradespeople—according to an analysis of Census data by the National Association of Home Builders.
If a contractor loses enough workers to delay a project, the demand for everyone else on that project can fall with them.
There is evidence that this is already happening. New research by economists Chloe East and Elizabeth Cox examining the surge in immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term found that areas experiencing larger increases in ICE arrests saw employment fall among likely undocumented immigrants.
But U.S.-born workers didn’t fill the gap.
Instead, they lost ground, too: For every six male undocumented workers pushed out of the labor market, one U.S.-born male worker also lost employment, the researchers found. The damage was worst in construction, where employment among U.S.-born men with a high school degree or less fell 3% after ICE surges.
“Foreign-born and native-born workers complement rather than purely substitute for each other,” Swonk said. “They affect the entire ecosystems of regional economies.”'