Companies pledge not to hire illegal immigrants

Among small construction subcontractors in the metro Atlanta area, Dale Jakupca considers his company something of an anomaly.

Jakupca’s Buford carpentry business, Architectural Floor Solutions, refuses to hire illegal immigrants for labor. It’s his response to what he says is a growing trend in the industry of hiring low-wage, undocumented workers to do much of the grunt work.

“I’ve seen it slowly deteriorate to the point where the legal tradespeople are pretty much being pushed out of construction,â€