Summary

Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants is causing alarm in Texas, where industries like construction heavily depend on undocumented labor, comprising nearly 60% of the workforce.

Experts warn mass deportations could cripple the state’s economy, already strained by labor shortages and low population growth.

Workers like Veronica Carrasco, an undocumented house painter, fear family separations and job losses.

While Trump signals determination, some hope his policies might push Congress to enact immigration reform, such as a guest-worker program, to balance economic needs with national security concerns.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    341·
    1 day ago

    And watch the inevitable national scale strikes and protests bring the supply chain to a halt.

    This is the part that is unlikely to happen. If past experience is any judge, the GOP’s propaganda machine will successfully shift the blame yet again, and morons will wholeheartedly believe that the solution to our problems is that the fuckheads aren’t being authoritarian enough, and we need to crack down harder on [insert bogeyman here].

    • Icalasari@fedia.io
      21·
      1 day ago

      And they’ll use prison camps to fill labour voids, work people to death, and make even more restrictive laws to fill the shortages, continue until something gives and it collapses because they either can’t any more or the blue states start to riot in an attempt to break free of the US, either case resulting in GoP blaming “The enemy we are at war with” for the shortages and degrading conditions