Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

[struth]

Trump has said he wants across the board tariffs.

Thanks for confirming that you didn’t know what you were voting for.

No he didn’t. Why do you lie?

Oh it’s because you have no idea even what a tariff is.

 

[bdtex]

‘"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.

To hell with any of them that voted for him.

 

[Mac-7]

Trump is MAGA and he said it wouldn’t happen.

Do you hold him accountable for such an obvious lie?

No. MAGA believes him and if they don’t believe him they don’t care.

If trump said it wont raise prices he is mistaken

Nut I havent heard him say that

 

[cnm]

Hire Americans and pay them a good wage.

All these illegals are depressing wages.

You'd think Republicans would do that anyway.

No? You mean they'd do anything to save a few bucks?

 

[cnm]

The reason we don't have that is because too many employers don't want to pay a legal wage and taxes that go along with that. Not to mention worker protections.

And Texass is all in on that.

 

[Dr.Know]

‘"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.

Since when do left wing Radicals care about business ? Conservatives believe in THE LAW unlike you murdering, warmongering Radical Deep state goons on the left.

You thieves tried to use illegal immigration to steal another election AND to provide industry with CHEAP LABOR thus undercutting American wages and destroying the middle class.

The biggest threat to the USA is the 50 million illegals that you idiots let in and are paying for while millions of Americans are homeless and cannot get aid.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

‘"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.

The hispanics will no longer have a monopoly on those jobs and United States citizens will have a fair chance at them now.

There's lots of discrimination against non-hispanics in that industry these days.

 

[80zephyr]

Not sure what you mean by “young people” exactly.

Young wage earners in your life. Do they have good jobs?

 

[Marener]

If trump said it wont raise prices he is mistaken

Nut I havent heard him say that

Have you heard Trump say that tariffs will increase prices?

 

[Mac-7]

Have you heard Trump say that tariffs will increase prices?

No, I have not heard trump say that

I favor 25-35% tariffs on china and mexico

And no tariffs on canada unless the chinese are transshipping through canada

The same goes for other allied nations with similar wages, pollution controls, ect that we have in America

 

[dudmuck]

Since when do left wing Radicals care about business ? Conservatives believe in THE LAW unlike you murdering, warmongering Radical Deep state goons on the left.

You thieves tried to use illegal immigration to steal another election AND to provide industry with CHEAP LABOR thus undercutting American wages and destroying the middle class.

The biggest threat to the USA is the 50 million illegals that you idiots let in and are paying for while millions of Americans are homeless and cannot get aid.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘Speaking to Newsweek, Ray Perryman, CEO of financial analysis firm The Perryman Group, said the move would have a "disproportionate impact" on Texas. Referring to a Perryman Group study which he said will be published next week, the founder asserted: "If 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada were to be implemented and maintained, we estimate that the annual losses to the U.S. economy would be about $250.6 billion in annual gross domestic product (2024 dollars) and about 1.97 million jobs. These losses amount to almost 1 percent of U.S. GDP.

"Because of its proximity to and integration of supply chains with Mexico, Texas would see a disproportionate impact, which we estimate to be about $46.9 billion in yearly gross state product (about 1.7 percent of the total) and approximately 370,000 jobs." Perryman added that if Trump's tariffs sparked retaliatory tariffs from Mexico or Canada, or if they sparked inflation which led to an interest rates rise, the "adverse effects would increase."’

Donald Trump's tariff threat could devastate Texas

One economist told Newsweek that "a tariff war with Mexico will severely impact Texas."

www.newsweek.com

Blinded by racism, bigotry, and hate, Republicans are determined to harm the US economy.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Blinded by racism, bigotry, and hate,...

... 8,000,000 Democrats who voted for Biden didn't vote for Harris.