A combination of Texas business associations and the state's Gulf Coast building trades unions have stepped up a pro-immigrant campaign in the weeks leading up to the national presidential election—emphasizing the overwhelming number of immigrants who work in the state's residential and non-residential construction industry.

Released last month, data and an accompanying message on immigration were prepared by the Texans for Economic Growth, an employer association, and the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigrant nonprofit association founded in 1987 by immigration attorneys. Among supporters of the recent report are the Houston Gulf Coast Building & Construction Trades Council and the Greater Houston Builders Association.