WelfareQueen
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I hope you are able to absorb information longer than a tweet. Your propagandists rely on you having the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper sticker.
After years of underbuilding, the country faces a housing shortage estimated at 3.7 million units, pushing home prices and rents to record highs. But one of the biggest obstacles to building more housing is a shortage of construction workers, which is slowing down projects and driving up labor costs.
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Immigrant workers have been essential in filling this gap. According to our analysis, immigrants made up more than 23 percent of the construction workforce in 2023. It’s estimated that about half of them are undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration’s proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would worsen the worker shortage—deepening the housing crisis and undermining the administration’s goals to “lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply.”
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New evidence that stricter immigration enforcement reduces housing construction is emerging. During Trump’s first term, the Secure Communities program, which implemented stricter immigration enforcement, led to lasting declines in construction labor and homebuilding and rising home prices, according to one study. The researchers also found that undocumented workers complement rather than substitute for US-born workers, so deportations led to net job losses for US-born workers.
Mass Deportations Would Worsen Our Housing Crisis
Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force, which is highly dependent on immigrant workers, exacerbating the US housing crisis—but some stat…www.urban.org
Immigrant farmworkers make up an estimated 73% of agriculture workers in the United States. Farm labor is absolutely essential work that puts food on our tables across the country, powers the economy and supports our communities, from dairy farms in Wisconsin to strawberry fields in Florida and apple orchards in Washington. All together, food and agriculture sector is a $1.053 trillion industry.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that, in total, U.S. agriculture needs 1.5 to 2 million hired workers each year. Farmers have been struggling to fill these positions; in 2019, 56% of California farmers reported being unable to find all the workers they needed over the last five years.
This is partly because, even when wages and benefits are increased, there are still not enough U.S. citizens applying.
As I keep saying, immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do.
The labor shortage puts American agriculture at a competitive disadvantage. American growers’ inability to find dependable sources of labor is a major reason for the significant increase in the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables that are imported into the U.S, costing billions in sales and tens of thousands of jobs.
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Undocumented farm workers make up approximately 50% of the farm labor workforce. Without their hard work, millions of pounds of food would otherwise go unharvested. While these workers pay taxes and contribute to the economy, they are not protected by U.S. labor laws, and they live every day under the threat of arrest and family separation – all while working in extremely difficult conditions.
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that providing legal status to current undocumented workers would have a net positive effect on the federal budget, increasing tax revenues. The CBO has also found that legalizing the undocumented population would boost economic output and increase employment for U.S.-born workers.
Additionally, stabilizing the workforce would help U.S. farmers stay open for business, keepings jobs available for U.S. workers and pushing back on increasing food and production costs driven by the shortages.
Immigrant Farmworkers and America's Food Production - 5 Things to Know - Fwd.us
Modernizing the temporary visa program, and establishing a pathway to citizenship for long-term undocumented agricultural workers, is urgently needed to protect America’s agriculture industry and farmworkers alike.www.fwd.us
The housing shortage is caused in large part by attempting to house 15 million illegals. Dims.....
