'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States

[sop]

.Communities in two red states that voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election have found themselves being unexpectedly hurt by his mass deportation agenda."

"The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that construction trade groups in southern Texas have been sounding the alarm about aggressive immigration raids on work sites that are leading to serious delays of projects, which in turn are raising prices for buyers and lowering profit margins for sellers."

"Things have gotten so severe, wrote the Journal, that materials suppliers have started laying off workers and one concrete company filed for bankruptcy due to a drop off in sales that it blamed on the immigration raids."

"Mario Guerrero, chief executive of the South Texas Builders Association, said that the raids were 'terrorizing job sites,' and grinding economic activity to a halt...'They are basically taking everyone in there working, whether they have proper documentation or not,' said Guerrero, who acknowledged backing Trump in the 2024 election."

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/red-state-ice-raids

[Lovie777]

1. Well.............

magas can take the helm at the same wages with no benefits.

[Journeyman]

4. One of their biggest complaints: "They're taking our jobs!" . . .

So now let ’em work in the sweltering sun, doing the labor they didn't want others to do.

[Blues Heron]

2. Lol talk about hoist by thine own petard!

[Attilatheblond]

3. Has ANYBODY heard, read, or seen ANY news of big drug gang busts anywhere in the US since these ICE 'raids" have gone on

I live in the borderlands, and I have read about a few people being picked up, but NONE were involved in any sort of 'dangerous gang activity'. Most were gainfully employed and paying taxes, staying on the right side of the laws and being good neighbors.

If DHS wants to actually go after dangerous criminals, I am pretty damned sure any local police department in the nation could tell them where to find them. But ICE might get hurt going up against actual known bad guys and then they wouldn't be able to nab those quotas Stephen 'Even My Brother Hates Me' Miller has set for them.

The real dangerous illegals shoot back and that might ruffle ICE chicken feathers.

[mjvpi]

5. The economies of Texas and Florida would collapse if ICE got serious in either state.

Both states are prime locations for drugs and people smuggling. If ICE needs to go to DEFCON 5, start with those stars. Pushback would be -minimum from the state government and the population, as a whole would also be- supportive. Plus, there are reported to be millions of people in there states illegally. Get those bonuses. Forget that these are human beings with kids in school, taxpayers, consumers and they most probably constitute the heart of citizens who work hard, labor intensive jobs. The people who hire these people are the real criminals.

[JustKay]

6. Stupid Texans got what they asked for!

[Skittles]

8. THE stupid Texans

there are a LOT of Dems here

[TomSlick]

7. Before the US was the US, the economy has always relied on cheap immigrant labor.

Some came on slave ships, some were indentured servants, some were people immigrating in hopes of finding work - any work. We are a nation of the descendants of immigrant laborers - the wretched refuse of some country's teeming shore.

The children of immigrant labors find better work than their parents. Their children go to college and work their way into the middle class. These children and grandchildren of immigrant laborers must be replaced with another generation of immigrant laborers. If cheap immigrant labor disappears, the economy will collapse.