Go to any construction site, commercial building or housing subdivision and listen. YOU WIILL HEAR SPANISH SPOKEN.
"We as a people…have to to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, make a lot of noise, do a lot of objections, bring a firestorm of opposition to candidates like Hegseth for defense, Gabbard for National Intelligence director, RFK Jr Health & Human Services, Doctor Oz Medicare & Medicaid and the rest."
Trump's Deportation Plan: Economic Disaster Ahead?
MICHAEL POPOK
Nov 25, 2024
Trump voters and major donors are having buyer's remorse as his Mass Deportation based immigration policies will devastate the economy, destroy the labor pool for construction and our food supply worse than Covid-19, and lead to higher food and rent prices. Popok is @ The Intersection of Law, Politics, Immigration Policy and the Economy and reporting.
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TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLAN COULD END RECONSTRUCTION IN THE CITY OF COATESVILLE.
"Clear signals President-elect Donald Trump plans to make good on his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants in his second term has sparked concerns among some in Texas' business and economic sectors who say mass deportations could upend some of the state's major industries that rely on undocumented labor, chief among them the booming construction industry.
"It would devastate our industry, we wouldn't finish our highways, we wouldn't finish our schools," said Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, a Houston-based commercial and residential construction giant. "Housing would disappear. I think they'd lose half their labor.”
Talk of a mass round up comes as Texas is booming. Texas cities regularly appear on lists of the country's fastest growing communities, and construction cranes and workers donning safety vests are common sites in most major cities.
That Texas relies on undocumented labor is one of the state's open secrets, despite Republicans' tough-on-immigration stances.
In 2022, more than a half million immigrants worked in the construction industry, according to a report by the American Immigration Council and Texans for Economic Growth. Nearly 60% of that workforce was undocumented.
"The state needs to leverage both U.S.-born and immigrant talent to fill construction jobs that power the Texas economy," the report notes.
"It's not remotely practical to round up and deport everybody," said economist Ray Perryman, the president and CEO of the Waco-based Perryman Group.
He said the reason Texans need so many immigrant laborers is simple: The Texas workforce isn't large enough to keep pace with its growth. Like Marek, he worries that a massive roundup could have a chilling effect on the Texas economy.
"And, we simply don't have an economic structure that can sustain that. There are more undocumented people working in Texas right now than there are unemployed people in Texas," Perryman said.
A sustainable workforce, he added, will be harder to come by as the population wanes.
"The bottom line is if you just look across the country, our birth rates are at historic lows, our population growth is at historic lows, we just simply are not making enough people, so to speak, to sustain our economy," Perryman said.
Trump's sweeping campaign pledges likely have the support of Republican border hawks in Texas, where a state-led border mission called Operation Lone Star started in 2021 and has cost taxpayers more than $11 billion. The effort has included deployment of thousands of Texas National Guard and state police officers to the border, construction of barriers that include fencing, walls and razor wire on or near the banks of the Rio Grande, and a floating buoy barrier in the river.
All signs show Trump will try to make good on his deportation promises. He has tapped Tom Homan, Trump's former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who also served in that official capacity under former President Barack Obama. Trump has also named Stephen Miller a deputy chief of staff for policy and advisor on homeland security issues. Miller served in Trump's previous administration and was the architect behind the zero-tolerance policy that led to family separations after parents who entered the country illegally were incarcerated…"
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Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry
Summary
The article discusses the potential impact of President-elect Donald Trump's deportation vow on the Texas construction industry. The industry relies heavily on undocumented labor, and mass deportations could lead to a shortage of workers, disrupting major construction projects and potentially devastating the state's economy. The article also highlights the challenges faced by the undocumented workforce and their families under Trump's policies.
November 23, 20245:01 AM ET
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"We as a people…have to to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, make a lot of noise, do a lot of objections, bring a firestorm of opposition to candidates like Hegseth for defense, Gabbard for National Intelligence director, RFK Jr Health & Human Services, Doctor Oz Medicare & Medicaid and the rest."
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