Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

[Obiwan]

‘"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.’

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/g-s1-35465/trump-deportation-migrants-immigrants-texas-construction-industry-border-security

Industries devastated by rightwing racism, bigotry, and hate – conservatives are truly this stupid and ignorant.

Gee, I thought the Dembots were saying that the solution to the illegals stealing jobs is to go after the businesses that employ them.

I agree that it could help solve the problem!!!

SHUT THE MF'S DOWN!!!

 

[d0gbreath]

I mentioned before that a mass deportation of migrant workers was going to cause the price of a new home to go way up, and everyone laughed at me. Was everyone laughing because they know that mass deportation was a campaign promise that is not going to happen?

If true, I'll laugh right along with y'all.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Hire Americans and pay them a good wage.

All these illegals are depressing wages.

Put employers that hire illegals in prison, and it will stop.

 

[JGalt]

Put employers that hire illegals in prison, and it will stop.

Even if we did, we'd still be stuck with 30-40 million illegal trespassers.

Better to just throw the illegal criminals out of the country.

 

[para bellum]

Clayton forgot that his Messiah Obama deported 2.5 MILLION ILLEGALS. That's why Obama earned the title "DEPORTER-IN-CHIEF".

That was only after redefining the term to include people who agreed to be returned after they were caught entering illegally.

Obama didn't make an effort to deport people from the interior of the country. People who were turned away make up most of that 2.5 Million or whatever it really was...

 

[para bellum]

It's pretty stupid to say employers should be locked up for hiring illegals, when at the same time the IRS is giving them ITIN's to file their taxes under.

Sometimes illegals provide fake social security cards, and when the accountant goes to prepare the W-2's there is even an override option for when there is no ID match in the SS database.

The gov't encourages employers to hire illegals by having these policies and a dysfunctional e-verify system...

 

[MarathonMike]

That was only after redefining the term to include people who agreed to be returned after they were caught entering illegally.

Obama didn't make an effort to deport people from the interior of the country. People who were turned away make up most of that 2.5 Million or whatever it really was...

I despise Obama for what he did do divide the country. But he at least respected immigration law and quietly followed the law. Biden and the 2020 Democrats completely blew up our border and created massive problems on multiple fronts that Trump now must fix.

 

[para bellum]

I despise Obama for what he did do divide the country. But he at least respected immigration law and quietly followed the law. Biden and the 2020 Democrats completely blew up our border and created massive problems on multiple fronts that Trump now must fix.

Deportations under Obama were half what they were under Bush. Obama created DACA by executive order. The only reason it appears like he followed the law is the redefining of what a "return" meant.

"Deporter-in-Chief" was an unearned title. He didn't deport anyone from the interior with the exception of a few criminals after they served their sentences.

 

[MarathonMike]

Deportations under Obama were half what they were under Bush. Obama created DACA by executive order. The only reason it appears like he followed the law is the redefining of what a "return" meant.

"Deporter-in-Chief" was an unearned title. He didn't deport anyone from the interior with the exception of a few criminals after they served their sentences.

The point is Obama respected our immigration laws and the 2020 Democrats DESTROYED our immigration laws. Furthermore we never heard a PEEP from the Media about Obama's deportation efforts but now the Media is screaming from the rooftops about Trump's plan to fix what the Democrats have badly broken.

 

[para bellum]

The point is Obama respected our immigration laws and the 2020 Democrats DESTROYED our immigration laws. Furthermore we never heard a PEEP from the Media about Obama's deportation efforts but now the Media is screaming from the rooftops about Trump's plan to fix what the Democrats have badly broken.

Obama sort-of respected the laws, but he was fine with doing by executive order what he could not get from the Congress.

Biden was way worse, I am not disagreeing with that. But Obama charted the path with DACA- what you can't get from the Congress just do it by EO (which is what Biden did with his fly-ins).

 

[Mac-7]

‘"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.’

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/g-s1-35465/trump-deportation-migrants-immigrants-texas-construction-industry-border-security

Industries devastated by rightwing racism, bigotry, and hate – conservatives are truly this stupid and ignorant.

Libs forget that Americans used to do those jobs

 

[d0gbreath]

Libs forget that Americans used to do those jobs

You forget that Americans don't know how to do those jobs now.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Industries devastated by rightwing racism, bigotry, and hate – conservatives are truly this stupid and ignorant.

Lie to us some more.

 

[struth]

‘"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.’

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/g-s1-35465/trump-deportation-migrants-immigrants-texas-construction-industry-border-security

Industries devastated by rightwing racism, bigotry, and hate – conservatives are truly this stupid and ignorant.

What does race have to do with being here illegally???

 

[Marener]

Libs forget that Americans used to do those jobs

We got better jobs.

 

[whitehall]

Is it the truth or just typical bullshit spin by NPR? Why are taxpayers forced to fund that biased and dishonest network? You have to scratch your head when an alleged high profile Texas based construction company tries to make a political point by admitting to violating federal, state and local law by hiring undocumented illegal criminal aliens. Maybe they forgot that there is a new sheriff in town.

 

[initforme]

Wait until farmers have to pay $30 per hour to people picking crops. Going to be interesting.

 

[Mac-7]

You forget that Americans don't know how to do those jobs now.

There is truth to that

Americans taught the world how to make things

But those Americans are gone now

 

[Mac-7]

We got better jobs.

Doing what?

Sitting on your fat ass and shuffling papers around?

Or, is collecting welfare a profession now?

 

[Marener]

Doing what?

Sitting on your fat ass and shuffling papers around?

Or, is collecting welfare a profession now?

Such hostility.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a desk job. Maybe we just don’t want to destroy our bodies and wind up on disability like so many blue collar folks.