Illegal labor “drives wages down for American workers,” which is one of the reasons “we have vastly increased worksite enforcement operations,” border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Friday.

“True story: I hired a roofing company, and I had to call five different companies before I got one that guaranteed legal workforce. And I talked to a U.S. citizen father and son who used to have 20 U.S. citizen employees that they had to lay off because they couldn’t win a bid,” Homan said on “Carl Higbie: FRONTLINE.”

“They couldn’t win a job because other companies were paying illegal aliens a fraction of what a U.S. citizen made getting on that roof. And this happens a thousand times in this country. And this is why one of the reasons we have vastly increased worksite enforcement operations, protecting the American worker, protecting the job wage growth. And that’s one of the reasons we’re doing it,” he added.

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