Trumps Abschiebeversprechen alarmiert die texanische Bauindustrie

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>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.
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>”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.”
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>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.
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>That Texas relies on undocumented labor is one of the state’s open secrets, despite Republicans’ tough-on-immigration stances.
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>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.
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>”The state needs to leverage both U.S.-born and immigrant talent to fill construction jobs that power the Texas economy,” the report notes.
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>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.
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>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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>Marek said Trump can solve the problem by backing a guest-worker program similar to the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA: Applicants can live and work in the country legally, but only after agreeing to backgrounds checks, paying a fine or application fee and working for a company that pays payroll taxes.
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>”It’s so simple. The right likes it because we’ve [identified] the people for national security and they’re paying taxes. The left likes it because we’ve basically given them a legal status and we’ve given them the protection of wage and hour laws,” he said.

It’s not just businesses in Texas that will suffer from this, but industries all across the country. At this point hoping that the new administration will do the right thing(s) is nothing more than wishful thinking, given their indications otherwise. Given Greg Abbott’s initiation and support for these draconian policies though, it’s pretty disappointing that these businesses don’t hold him to account for some of their woes as well.

Not an *ounce* of concern before the election. Why are they mortified *now*? Dude told you what he was going to do. Make your bed and lay in it.

It should alarm everyone

The only way to end this bullshit once and for all is to let them do it. Let them fail miserably. Let these moron supporters see the reality of this nonsense. Then MAYBE they will wake the hell up and pay attention and we can finally move forward.

plant a garden, get handy around the house; good luck people. Maybe in four years everyone will remember how stupid republicans’ ideas are and wish for sanity again.

don’t worry. Apparently the industry will magically increase pay to attract a new wave of workers who will then be able to afford homes and live happily ever after.

Looks like there’s not going to be any workers left to build that wall, folks.

75% of roofing businesses are about to go under

Good. Maybe then you’ll see just how much you depend on the people you resent.

Awww the same lowlifes who lobbied to do away with unions and the waterbreaks during the summer months.

Not to worry, Texas GOP will blame democrats somehow and then Texas will vote straight-R next election.

I seriously hope rational people are not surprised or shocked by any of this. For as long as I’ve been aware of American politics it’s always been the same:

1. Republican Candidtate says exactly what they’re going to do
2. Republican voters vote against their interestes
3. Things go south and Republican politicians blame Democrats somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary
4. Republican voters believe it and continue to vote against their interestes

It’s not about truth, or factual results, or reasoned choices. It’s about feelings and tribalism. Conservative voters in flyover states form their worldview based on their communal identity. Their news comes from a single perspective. Their friends, family, community leaders, all believe the same thing. That makes it incredibly difficult to break through to people. You’re asking them to reject their entire reality.

This is compounded by conservative perspectives that view the world in zero-sum terms. If you grant rights to marginalized groups, those rights must come at the expense of the conservative group. If you provide fiscal or social support to the under privileged, you must take those resources from the conservative’s pockets. If you provide safe spaces for people who are non-normative in any aspect, you must make those spaces less safe for those who are normative. Obviously none of that is factually accurate, but when your view of the world dictates for there to be winners there must also be losers then you’re going to gravitate toward the political personalities that promise to protect you from it and you’ll gravitate to media that tells you your fears are justified. It’s also why they gravitate to authoritarians, because they’re looking for someone who will “put things right” regardless of obstacles. It doesn’t matter of those obstacles are legal, moral, or ethical, because the risk is existential in their view.

Those are not the kind of attitudes you change by pointing out tarrifs are bad, crime statistics are actually down, vaccines are safe and effective, etc, etc, etc. You can’t reason with the unreasonable.

Haha guess you shouldn’t get in bed with the leopards.🐆

I, for one, say “fuck ‘em”.

The Texas construction industry voted for this so they can fuck off.

The Texas free market is brutal.

When the power grid seizes up and people are fearful of freezing over, there won’t be the same cheap labor that has allowed small/large business contractors to be profitable.

The upside is that libertarians have been calling for legalizing child labor to offset undocumented immigration enforcement such as current governor and former trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has in her state. 

Oh no the unlubed dildo of consequences approacheth

Texans can look forward to our property taxes going up to pay for the increased cost of labor. Roads and schools will still need work. Nearly everything a country subcontracts out for will increase in cost with a reduced blue collar labor force.

Texans will start eating their neighbors cats and dogs.