Texas construction firms facing labor squeeze amid data center boom, immigration crackdown
Blaine Beckman remembers his elementary and middle school teachers telling him and other students that if they didn’t get good grades, they could end up working in construction. Beckman, now the president of San Antonio general contractor company Nunnelly, had an internal battle when he first discovered his passion for construction. “Even though I loved the feeling it gave me, I thought I didn’t want to be in construction or be viewed as a construction worker,” he said. “I wanted to get my…
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