Over 60 Hispanic business owners have placed their business cards into the government contractor fish bowl to work on the US/Mex border wall, because “a job is a job.” Gee now if we can get that mentality into so many other folks – PB/TK
Hispanic builder on the Mexico wall: ‘Work is work’ –
Mario Burgos certainly isn’t anti-immigrant. His father was born in Ecuador. His maternal grandparents immigrated from Europe.
But that won’t stop him from bidding on the proposed Mexican border wall.
“It’s not an anti-immigrant thing for me. It’s about creating jobs. And honestly [it’s] like any other job,” said Burgos.
Burgos is one of more than 60 Hispanic-owned businesses that have registered as vendors that are interested in bidding on the project — about 10% of the 600 or so companies that have done so.
Formal bidding has yet to start, but the Department of Homeland Security is expected to post details for bidders later this week.
President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall has sparked a lot of criticism about its cost, estimated to be at least $10 billion, as well as whether a wall is smart immigration policy. But the companies bidding on the 1,300-mile barrier aren’t concerned about policy.
Continue to money.cnn.com article: http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/13/news/companies/hispanic-wall-contractors/index.html
