🇺🇸 RGV Labor Squeeze Deepens

Texas Border Business reports construction and agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley are under workforce pressure, with employers struggling to fill jobs across two core border industries. The story centers on South Texas, where seasonal farm work and building trades are feeling the strain at the same time.

Border labor dependence is not a side issue in the Valley economy. When key sectors run on unstable labor flows, every policy swing in Washington becomes theater with local costs. The result is predictable: weaker legal order, more room for gray-market hiring, and a border economy still exposed to cartel-adjacent smuggling networks.

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