Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

[Winco]

Excuse me if I don't buy your story.

OK, you have an Opinion.

Care to discuss?

 

[Mac-7]

Its your allegedly “smart” college kids who voted for democrats and student loan forgiveness because being a soda jerk at Starbucks doesnt pay enough

Smart enough to split the atom but too stupid to come in out of the rain

 

[pknopp]

OK, you have an Opinion.

Care to discuss?

Not really.

 

[Mac-7]

Alan, being a white guy gets $50.00 for mowing our lawn and backyard. He mows the next door neighbor's backyard for another 15 minutes and another $50.00. Then he has another couple of jobs across the street for another $100.00. White guy Alan makes $200.00 an hour. We pay $100.00 a month. You overpay by $20.00 a month so Javier can have someplace to park his family.

Why are you overpaying so much?

And, Alan speaks English

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

‘"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.

surprise cultists... it is going to get real ugly. If you thought inflation under Biden was bad, you are in for a RUDE AWAKENING

Look at the bright side.. you voted for it

 

[EvilCat Breath]

And, Alan speaks English

Yes he does.
Alan is a really nice guy. He's come back and done any number of off jobs on his off time. He put my art table together and changed a faucet. $40.00 for both. AND, he could read the instructions.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Your WHITE Utopia doesn't really exist.


I pay my "Lawn Guy and his Family" a fair wage.
I have no idea if Javier is legal or not.
Don't care, but I assume he is "Legal", but I'm paying him anyway.

If Javier and his Buddies are gone in 3 months, then I know I'm gonna have to pay some LAZY white dude twice as much.

Do you want that?


Yes, I can afford it, and I ain't going back to mowing my yard with all the upkeep.
I'll gladly pay, but when I have to pay a LAZY ASS WHITE dude to do the same job, I'm blaming POS trump and his supporters.

Why don’t you hire a black dude you racist?

 

[MarathonMike]

I've heard him called a lot of things but not that.

Are you an American? Just curious

 

[the watcher]

I like to think so

 

[MarathonMike]

I like to think so

You certainly didn't hear it from the 90 percent of media controlled by the Democrats, but Deporter-In Chief was a well known and well deserved nickname. What was particularly devious by Obama was that he promised Hispanics that within the first 100 days of his term he would launch immigration reform. He did not and instead went full bore on Obamacare and deporting 1000 illegals a day.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘The “mass deportation of millions of people will cause reduced employment opportunities for U.S. workers, it will cause reduced economic growth in America, it will cause a surge in inflation, and it will cause increased budget deficits—that is, a higher tax burden on Americans,” said Michael Clemens, an economist at George Mason University who studies international migration.’

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Would Wreak Havoc on the Economy

If you think inflation is bad now, just wait.

www.yahoo.com

Reckless and irresponsible, further proof that Trump is unfit to be president.

 

[pknopp]

You certainly didn't hear it from the 90 percent of media controlled by the Democrats, but Deporter-In Chief was a well known and well deserved nickname. What was particularly devious by Obama was that he promised Hispanics that within the first 100 days of his term he would launch immigration reform. He did not and instead went full bore on Obamacare and deporting 1000 illegals a day.

Which is why Republicans have made inroads with Hispanics.

 

[Marener]

Not true. On balance, the demographics with lower unemployment rates trended to Trump.

The only group with low unemployment rates that trended Harris is people with a bachelor's degree or higher, who went 56-43 for Harris.

Democrats lost the working-class voters, and they aren't going back.

If they all have jobs, why is Trumps base so obsessed with returning low skill jobs to the US?

 

[Marener]

Why do you think people that didn’t go to college just sit on welfare? Why do you think having a college degree means you make a lot of money?

You clearly don’t get out much

Less educated individuals have higher rates of unemployment, poverty and disability.

Statistics show that college educated individuals make substantially more than non-college educated individuals.

 

[Lisa558]

If they all have jobs, why is Trumps base so obsessed with returning low skill jobs to the US?

The working class, who voted Republican, have jobs. It’s the Democrat underclass on welfare who won’t work, and now they won’t have an excuse that there are no low-skilled jobs.

Time for the welfare leeches to get off their butts.

 

[initforme]

And more shrinks to deal with their mental problems

There is no mental problems with aspiring to more than having kids. Deal with itm

 

[para bellum]

If they all have jobs, why is Trumps base so obsessed with returning low skill jobs to the US?

Manufacturing jobs aren't low skill jobs. That 50 year old machinist at Boeing without a college degree makes 2 or 3 times as much as the 25 year old college grad barista at Starbucks.

Your elitist attitude towards the working class is exactly why the dems lost the election, and will continue to lose elections at the national level until they figure it out...

 

[Marener]

Manufacturing jobs aren't low skill jobs. That 50 year old machinist at Boeing without a college degree makes 2 or 3 times as much as the 25 year old college grad barista at Starbucks.

Your elitist attitude towards the working class is exactly why the dems lost the election, and will continue to lose elections at the national level until they figure it out...

A machinist is different than someone working on the assembly line. Especially when speaking about something as advanced as aerospace. You’re comparing apples and oranges.

You are still dodging the question as to why these people are so obsessed with returning these jobs when they are already doing so great!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

‘The “mass deportation of millions of people will cause reduced employment opportunities for U.S. workers, it will cause reduced economic growth in America, it will cause a surge in inflation, and it will cause increased budget deficits—that is, a higher tax burden on Americans,” said Michael Clemens, an economist at George Mason University who studies international migration.’

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Would Wreak Havoc on the Economy

If you think inflation is bad now, just wait.

www.yahoo.com

Reckless and irresponsible, further proof that Trump is unfit to be president.

He studies International Migration! Nuff said.

 

[Marener]

The working class, who voted Republican, have jobs. It’s the Democrat underclass on welfare who won’t work, and now they won’t have an excuse that there are no low-skilled jobs.

Time for the welfare leeches to get off their butts.

That doesn’t seem right. Trump country is among the most economically depressed in the nation. Are you sure that your base aren’t the people leeching off welfare? The “working class” take Medicaid, food stamps, and wind up on disability at high rates. The college educated, who voted for Dems in larger numbers, are far less likely to use these benefits.