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From Breitbart: Construction bosses based primarily in Texas are complaining that President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will stop them from hiring and continuing to employ hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in industry jobs.
Trump and Vance have vowed to carry out the nation’s largest deportation program in American history, spearheaded by former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan, whom Trump has named “border czar.”
In interviews with National Public Radio (NPR), construction mogul Stan Marek and economic consultant Ray Perryman complained that Trump’s mass deportation program “would devastate” the construction industry, suggesting that “we wouldn’t finish our highways, we wouldn’t finish our schools.”
Estimates from 2022 indicate that the construction industry in Texas employs more than half a million foreign-born workers — 6 in 10 of whom are illegal aliens with no legal basis to be holding jobs in the United States.
Arguing that the construction industry can’t survive without the illegal alien workers, Perryman told NPR, “It’s not remotely practical to round up and deport everybody. … And, we simply don’t have an economic structure that can sustain that. There are more undocumented people working in Texas right now than there are unemployed people in Texas.”
Instead of deportations, Marek called for the Trump-Vance administration to just give amnesty to all illegal aliens living in the United States.
Texas builders warn mass deportations of undocumented migrants could devastate the construction industry, threatening housing and infrastructure work in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states
via @nachoaguilar/@NPR https://t.co/tG68F1XE5x #txlege
— Joshua Fechter (@JoshuaFechter) November 25, 2024
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