Trump’s plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants could devastate some of the major industries in Texas that rely on undocumented labor, chief among them the booming construction industry.
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I can’t help but wonder if the plan is to just take immigrants’s agency away from them and make them slaves for these industries much like the mills in the South and the coal mines in Appalachia. Create their own money and prevent the ability to ever buy out of that system.
Texas RedCap contractors are "famous" for working the undocumented dangerously & hate both ICE & OSHA coming around. Kickbacks, the Texas 2-step, as "campaign donations" for more no-bid favoritism... 'TAXES', ie, texas ....
They’ll probably take the majority of those people they round up and use them for red state slave labor while having depleted blue state’s of legally protected migrant workers.
So let’s take it a step further than saying hey you benefited from the unfair status quo, aren’t you sad now. Let’s recognize that the industry has been abusing people and work towards a system where folks aren’t abused economically.
Where is he going to deport them to? Without a passport, which countries are going to accept them. Mass deportation means pulling people out of communities,(which they financially support) and put them interment camps and guess who pays for that? Anyone who voted for tRump is a fool!!!
Wouldn’t that be poetic justice for all of the Texans that voted for this fascist regime. Maybe Cruz and Abbott can pick up a hammer and help…oh wait, Ted will just run off to Cancun.
How many fucks do you think Don gives about that?
He gives no fucks about the stupid losers that elected him.
I hope they suffer and suffer again and again, I hope every day of his presidency is pain for those that elected him.
It’s not really helpful, but it’s honest.
That said they won’t blame him, they blame the deep state or some crap, anything to maintain their stupid belief that Trump is not a corrupt and useless stooge.
I'm just waiting to see how he plans to distinguish between the documented; the undocumented and the citizens .. in order to create his mass deportation spectacle
If only we would have had all of this coverage sounding the alarm oh say months ago? Maybe msm wanted this a bit so they had all this crappy news to sell their coverage.
IMHO: There won’t be any deportations. It was just a campaign Lie to get the MAGAt’s vote. The GOP runs its campaign on hatred of immigrants. But the Wealthy love cheap labor. tRump & the GOP will blame Dem’s for this.
Trump lies, bribes and bullies his way to getting extra guest worker visas, the same ones he promised to eliminate while ?scoring 74 for his winery, the last time he was elected. He actively avoids local service industry workers at Mar a Lago and ships in help from the Islands every season.
They aren't deporting a single soul. The plan is for profit internment camps and slave labor under the 13th amendment. And it won't just be immigrants. If you live in a state where MAGATS got their hands on voting machines or voting records such as Arizona with the Cyber Ninjas bullshit, look out.
Have you seen the movie “a day without a Mexican?” It’s eye opening. No more maids, no gardeners, etc. whit folk gonna be freaking when all the “help” disappears. No fresh produce. They are the backbone of this country!
Lowering work and marriage age in deep red states tells you they plan on using children for labour or childbirth. Next will be mandatory military draft but they’ll call it something different. Designs on your children were put into place to accomplish this. All this while decimating education.😡
This is why no admin. has been able to secure the border. All the southern states and corps. rely on this labor force. I highly doubt we'll see this change this time around, just like the last time around... Just my opinion tho. Time will tell.
I imagine it could devastate all those homemakers who must now rely on themselves to make their beds, clean their toilets, mow their lawns, nanny their children and wash their cars.
Is there anything that can be done about it quickly? It sounds to me like the industry is over-extended. Some kind of work permit for people already here and working?
So… they promise everything will fall in prices… then, they act in a way that makes supply fall while demand stays the same or increases.. yeah.. that seems about right for Republicans and Trump
“Be careful what you wish for” is the polite way of saying FAFO. We’re going to have construction bottlenecks, produce rotting in the fields, wealthy people’s homes not being cleaned or their children nannied. The dishes in their favorite restaurants will go unbused and unwashed. Cool.
There's a lot more to come across the country. People were warned, but obviously just believed whatever came out of the sewer clown's face-anus as truth.
The unemployment rate is at an historically low level. The Department of Labor has reported about 2% of the labor force was lost due to covid and long covid. It doesn't look like the needed workers are available.
As l says. Get people off of welfare and put them into the workforce (yes even if it means cutting funding for welfare). We can also take said funding and allocate it towards funding for trade schools and colleges again. Sounds like a Win-Win to me.
And I’m here for it!!! Also can’t wait for the President of Mexico to start deporting Americans. Hopefully, she’ll drop them off right across the border in Texas for MAGA Greg Abbott. #FAFO
All democracy-loving journalists should ask these 2 questions (over and over)—“What % of your products are made outside of the U.S.?” and “How many undocumented workers do you employ?”
They're just going to use undocumented immigrants they round up and put into camps. Writing is on the wall. That is why Texas already donated land for said camps.
The land offer is to make a quick buck. It is in one of the poorest counties in Texas with the highest amount of benefits paid out. It’s the good ole boys way of reversing revenue and putting their constituents to work. It won’t work. Staffing it will be a nightmare and we already have failed at it.
Why is it so many who probably voted for Trump because they wanted lower taxes r now crying warnings over exactly what Trump promised? Tariffs, deportation etc., consequences of their vote.
What did president Musk say? "there will be suffering"?
When the major industries can't survive, President Musk will buy their business for a steal and have federal permission to let immigrants work for him and him alone.
Are they lazy? That doesn’t ring true for me. Perhaps they are unwilling to work at back-breaking/dangerous jobs for a pittance. Also, construction requires a certain skill set, which not all who are seeing work possess.
It's quite simple, really. What we will do is deport the illegal aliens, and then allow a certain number in under work visas. That's how this will work. You are getting in a tizzy over absolutely nothing.
That’s true in the US as well. They are just not appealing jobs to most. If you can stand hard work and sometimes not great working conditions, you can easily make 6 figures with or without overtime.
But then people complain that things costs too much. Offering "Americans" 6 figures (which I do not believe) to pick apples makes that apple cost $10. Good luck with that.
Relative is an elevator mechanic, he makes more money than most CIO's in Provincial Government without doing overtime. The time has come where blue collar is level set to white collar. It should be/needs to be encouraged.
Add Texas donating a recently acquired State Park for deportation purposes from our STATE tax dollars.
It’s going to hurt more than these 🤡s possibly imagined, voting with hate not intelligence is going to cost huge.
With no available labor force I’m waiting, gonna LMAO at jobs sites empty! FAFO
Is this the leopards eating their … blah, blah, blah. You know what I don’t F’N care anymore. They voted for this and I hope they get everything they deserve.
Wealthy people cutting things we've relied on for decades is an essential element to their success. Putting the masses into a tailspin keeps them from paying attention to the really shady stuff they have planned.
He held a KLAN RALLY a month before the election. The WORST parts of American culture sprang into action -- and NOW companies are worried about fallout? "White supremacy is ok with us, but -- oops! Who's gonna do those black & Hispanic jobs?" I'm guessing the Felon will let many stay...
Yep. I’m in N. FL, and could certainly see a huge impact to the construction industry here. Builders I’ve talked to are already charging $500+ per square foot and it could go way up if this plays out.
They likely plan to round them up into detention camps who will bus them to and from work sites for cheap. Contractors pay the camps, camps pay the politicians. When people yell that it's slavery, they'll simply say that they're prisoners and this is just prison labor, and the court will back them.
Bet they just target a select group to deport in order to pacify their ignorant base so TX and other southern states can keep their cheap labor for overpriced goods! Lord knows their lazy butts won’t work the low wage labor jobs.
Surprise! Capitalism requires cheap labour. This is like going to the slaughterhouse and realizing that cute cow is ground up for your burger. It's good for people to realize that their way of life needs others to be exploited. Maybe let them have visas since your economy depends on them.
Curious, aren't 100 Million Real Americans going to stand up to this EVIL INHUMANE
attempt to turn USA into a #Nazi #Facist country?????
#AskingForTheWorld
What I need to know if it’s best if my family and I leave TexASS . How can we help if we are sitting ducks? His regime will go house to house removing people.
Can’t think of a more deserving state. I was born and raised there by Democrat parents, in a culturally diverse suburb of Houston. I used to be proud of my home state but not anymore.
It both cracks me up and hurts my head a little that the trump voter is so painfully dumb, this wasn't obvious to them. Seriously, magats are going to be the downfall of the US.
If they do, then they'll have to hire citizens at a reasonable salary and cut back on their profits! Subsidizing greedy real estate developers by providing them with cheap undocumented labor is NOT what makes a booming industry, even if it is what America has become in its decline.
CHIPS and BIL are rebuilding America with good jobs and long-term growth, but deportation plans will tear apart the construction industry, leaving projects unfinished and costs rising.
We need to protect jobs and ensure our economy works for the working class, not against them.
It'll make the home owner crisis worse, forcing a new generation of potential home buyers into long term leases, instead. But ya, MAGA voters thought Trump was giving them $25K for first time home purchase ... Oh wait, that was Kamala. Oopsie.
They keep demonizing these poor people trying to support their families but do nothing to these corporations and companies that hire them. Maybe an easier way to green cards and legitimacy would be a workable solution, but it supports their fear mongering so will never change. Sadly.
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But we should all know who to thank for our fresh produce.
He gives no fucks about the stupid losers that elected him.
I hope they suffer and suffer again and again, I hope every day of his presidency is pain for those that elected him.
That said they won’t blame him, they blame the deep state or some crap, anything to maintain their stupid belief that Trump is not a corrupt and useless stooge.
They can come back in LEGALLY!
This is what they VOTED for.
Bye kids from immigrants.
Bye Elon!!!
https://democrats.org/news/washington-post-my-whole-town-practically-lived-there-from-costa-rica-to-new-jersey-a-pipeline-of-illegal-workers-for-trump-goes-back-years/
Only NON-White undocumented immigrants 🙄
It couldn't happen to a better state.
It's literally what the majority voted for.
How does an economic downturn then benefit the ruling class?
#GOPF*ckery
It’s all rhetoric
Just saying.
When the major industries can't survive, President Musk will buy their business for a steal and have federal permission to let immigrants work for him and him alone.
Food will be devastated on a level of 1930’s!
Remember the pandemic-be prepared!
It'll devastate our food production, too. Guess who harvests our food, picks our fruit, milks our cows, staffs our slaughterhouses and chicken plants --
Here's a clue: It's not elves.
make great wages in the US and are sought after
It’s going to hurt more than these 🤡s possibly imagined, voting with hate not intelligence is going to cost huge.
With no available labor force I’m waiting, gonna LMAO at jobs sites empty! FAFO
Wealthy people cutting things we've relied on for decades is an essential element to their success. Putting the masses into a tailspin keeps them from paying attention to the really shady stuff they have planned.
barely getting paid at Maralargo
are probably safe.
attempt to turn USA into a #Nazi #Facist country?????
#AskingForTheWorld
We need to protect jobs and ensure our economy works for the working class, not against them.
What is that saying? You don't know what you've lost until it is gone.
They are about to find out.