Frustrated local contractor asks:
Who will do something about impact of illegal
immigration on law-abiding employers?

Alamance News
by Tomas Murawski

The issue of illegal immigration is more than just a
series of talking points to Kim Oliver. The Burlington
native believes that his very livelihood may be at
stake as more businesses break tax laws and other
regulations to hire undocumented workers.

For more than a decade, Oliver has owned and operated
O & S Concrete, a construction subcontractor along
Graham-Hopedale Road. The business owner insists that,
during that time, he has followed all of the labor and
tax laws that govern his industry, and he believes
that his conscientiousness has served him well over
the years.

But Oliver said that things began to change for the
worse a couple of years ago.
“I noticed that I was losing a lot of my contractors,â€