Construction Bosses Complain Trump Will Stop Them From Hiring Illegals
John Binder, Breitbart, November 26, 2024
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.
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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 {snip}
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“It’s not remotely practical to round up and deport everybody. … And, we simply don’t have an economic structure that can sustain that,” Perryman told NPR. “There are more undocumented people working in Texas right now than there are unemployed people in Texas.”
Instead, Marek said the Trump-Vance administration ought to pass amnesty {snip}
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