Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

Of course they're scared shitless. If there are no illegal immigrants they can pay minimum wage for heavy/skilled labor, they'll have to pay Americans $20 to $25/hour, thus eating into their obscene margins.

Since Trump is a dirtball scumbag real estate developer just like these guys, watch Trump fold on these deportations worse than a cheap suit.

Americans don't want the work anyway.

Should've thought about that when you proudly voted for the asshole who said this is what he'd do if elected. You fucked yourself, your state and your country. Enjoy your financial losses as you either have to hire Americans at higher wages or get off of your own entitled ass and do it yourself.

Stupid asses

r2 That's not true in the construction industry. Those jobs are highly coveted, but the workers demand a living wage. These companies would rather hoard profits and exploit illegals by paying them peanuts than pay Americans a living wage. It's criminal.

Yep. I read a figure that 50% of construction workers in Texas are undocumented. Thing is that Trump will, of course, send ICE to blue states first with California on top of the list. Who knows he might even tell ICE to bypass Texas construction sites and companies.

Now this is funny ... I hope this scenario plays out many times during the Trump nightmare.

^ Also, there is a high demand for new homes to be built. So the dreaded construction worker dry period where they're out of work for months is a thing of the past in this post-housing market crash of 2008 economy. These are jobs that a lot of working-class American men would love to have, but they're not going to be paid unfairly for it, either. Nor should the expect to be.

Who cares, Texas. It’s what you voted for.

This is why I think mass deportation actually has to happen or people will continue to vote for it. People are voting for a fantasy mass deportation which only affects the immigrants themselves and has no effect on the rest of society. Immigration, including illegal immigration, is so much more complicated than that, but fuckers will not see it until they actually see it. Once real mass deportation happens, or at least begins, only then will the morons who mindlessly voted for it finally have to confront the real-world effects. Before that, no amount of persuasion will make any difference. Only seeing what it really means will change people's minds.

r7 I can hear Trump's smarmy response to this now:

"Meh. Sounds like a bunch of new jobs for working-class Americans will be opening up if you ask me. You say mass deportation, I say mass job creation. Tuh-MAY-tuh, tuh-MAH-tuh." :kanyeshrug:

Watch. This is probably exactly how he's going to respond to this. He's very predictable. And what's more, his followers will love him even more for it. Because that's what being in a cult does to a person.

I hate it here.

Republicans have never voted for anything unless it affects them personally.

Good! It couldn't happen to a nicer state!

Republicans vote the same way they make laws - they don’t expect the effects to apply to them. They just expect the effects to apply to minorities they dislike. Which is all of them.

[quote]Thing is that Trump will, of course, send ICE to blue states first with California on top of the list. Who knows he might even tell ICE to bypass Texas construction sites and companies.

Send 'em all to Texas.

Awwww! That's a shame, Texas.

Dare I hope that construction of Musk’s harem compound will be held up? I do so love poetic justice, but the creep can probably buy his way out of it.

This will be Trump's biggest con/grift/scam yet. An employer will simply make a "contribution" to one of Trump's "charities," and the employer will magically get a temporary exemption from deportation for his illegal employees.

Trump will then become the Oscar Schindler of illegal immigrants. It's a win/win for everybody.

Here in Nevada, it's the same. Especially in the Las Vegas area--do people think that the miles and miles of tract housing are being built by white Americans?

Sure, Jan. And then there's the gaming/hospitality industry. Who do you think cleans toilets in those giant casino hotels? I initially said that business interests would talk him out of this and he'd do some show deportations of criminals. Just like the wall that Mexico was going to pay for never happened.

Then again, he is crazy enough to really do this and tank the economy. I guess we'll find out in a few months. Good luck, America!

I suspect that will happen too r18. In fact, I think a big part of journalism in the next few years will be finding and exposing those hypocrisies. In fact, it's one of the few things that will reach people who aren't moved by any argument about human suffering or about economic harm. But seeing obvious hypocrisy and bullshit little deals will actually enrage people who might otherwise not care.

A lot of those being deported would have voted for Trump if they could have so this should work out quite well for them.

In my state it's a battle between the white owned and operated construction companies- and the Hispanic owned ones who underbid them and win contracts. This is what's behind support for Trump.

I remember this article from years ago. I think it was about a bunch of farms in Iowa and everyone used illegal immigrants. And they all had two things in common: they all voted for anybody who promised to stop illegal immigration, and they were all terrified that ICE would be coming for them someday.

R23 - Is this article? It's more specifically about Devin Nunes family's farm in Iowa, but makes clear its a common practice. They moved there because California became just too stifling for their dairy business to succeed. Nunes had the gall to sue Esquire over the article

Olivia Nuzzi's ex-boyfriend is the author.

Yes, I think that's it r24.

[quote]Thing is that Trump will, of course, send ICE to blue states first

There's nothing we like more in Hell's Kitchen than ice.

Bring it, bitches; all the imps will turn out to greet you.

FAFO

Devin Nunes is retarded.

Good. Fuck Texas and Florida and every red state that will rely heavily on immigrant labor. You =voted for that fuck and his yes mob, deal with the consequences.

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I don't feel sorry. They all did this to themselves because they're scared of non-white people who don't speak English. They can fuck all the way off.

[QUOTE]They all did this to themselves

They did it to us, too.

I live in Houston and I'm waiting for thr fallout. Popcorn out.

Construction, Agriculture and Farming, Hospitality - maids and cleaning, wait staff, kitchen crews, Meat packing, Manufacturing

The price of EVERYTHING is going up soon. Inflation due to shortages and rising costs, not to mention tariffs. Fortunately, they're repealing child labor laws, so poor children can do the work instead of going to school.

Can you imagine if they impose tariffs on stuff manufactured in China - lol.

I hope all the poor and working class people who voted for him enjoy the nosedive their standard of living is about to take. I hope the rich people who voted for him enjoy the drastic increase in crime, followed by the use of draconian laws to curtail rights to "fix" the problem.

What a mess!

NOW a warning???

Texas voted for this. Texas will get everything they deserve.

[quote]Texas voted for this. Texas will get everything they deserve.

I am LOVING the fact that among the construction projects listed at risk are infrastructure projects, including the power grid which had a few notable failures recently that were unrelated to natural disasters.

Texas, summer, power outage...good times. Well, at least for us to have a good laugh at any rate.

Burn Texas Down.

But our ersatz slave labor

The terrible fact about Trumpism is that it's going to have to bring disaster upon the nation in order for it to be defeated.

Its fall is inevitable given how iditoic his polciies are, but it is going to cause so much suffering for so many before it is finished.

He'll probably allow them to work but put them in work camps. If they do good work and don't break laws they can apply for citizenship after a certain amount of time. Wait, I think that is called indentured servitude.

r41 = Joseph Gobbels

What I'd really like to is what does Susan Collins think?

R42 I hope if you reread my post you will see it is an attempt at sarcasm. It may have missed the mark. I thought my last sentence indicated that.

-R41

[quote]What I'd really like to is what does Susan Collins think?

She's concerned.

When is she not concerned R45?

She's not concerned.

She's ccconnnnccerrnnnedd.

I have a friend who is a contractor (he did not vote for Trump). He is running his hands in glee because he knows of many contractors who underbid him who use illegal labor where he does not. They charge less because they pay their workers less. Their workers also work longer hours without breaks, unlike his people.

I guess people who want stuff built will just have to be prepared to $UFFER, like Lord Troll Elon said.

No more cheap, fast labor ladies! Pay up and Enjoy!

*rubbing

[quote]The terrible fact about Trumpism is that it's going to have to bring disaster upon the nation in order for it to be defeated.

[quote]Its fall is inevitable given how iditoic his polciies are, but it is going to cause so much suffering for so many before it is finished.

Unfortunately it's necessary, having a catastrophe is the only way to stop Trumpism because the MAGA people are never going to stop otherwise.