Pentagon Blind to Troop Woes in Areas Across US with Limited Housing Options, Report Finds

[essentialsaltes]

I know that's rhe claim, but I don't see any evidence of it. Industries like you mention are not pushing it.

American Farm Bureau Federation

Requiring agricultural employers to use e-Verify without assuring that a workable guest worker program is in place could have a significant, negative impact on U.S. farm production.

Farm Bureau also believes the most critical component of border security is to fix the immigration system – including creating legal ways for agricultural workers to enter the country to fill jobs. Our government should focus on preventing those with real criminal intent from entering our country, rather than wasting time and resources locking up farm workers.

--

They are straight up saying they want to hire non-citizens. And they don't want E-Verify in place unless they get to hire non-citizens.

 

[rjs330]

American Farm Bureau Federation

Requiring agricultural employers to use e-Verify without assuring that a workable guest worker program is in place could have a significant, negative impact on U.S. farm production.

Farm Bureau also believes the most critical component of border security is to fix the immigration system – including creating legal ways for agricultural workers to enter the country to fill jobs. Our government should focus on preventing those with real criminal intent from entering our country, rather than wasting time and resources locking up farm workers.

--

They are straight up saying they want to hire non-citizens. And they don't want E-Verify in place unless they get to hire non-citizens.

They are asking for legal ways for workers to come in to fill jobs. They didn't ask for allowing illegals to come in. I'm going to quote this.

Requiring agricultural employers to use e-Verify without assuring that a workable guest worker program is in place could have a significant, negative impact on U.S. farm production.

They are stating e-verify buy itself is not a good idea, without a worker program. And I agree with them.

 

[essentialsaltes]

They are asking for legal ways for workers to come in to fill jobs. They didn't ask for allowing illegals to come in. I'm going to quote this.

Hazelponi's original statement was

"I don't understand the push to get all these people from 3rd world countries to hire for labor"

The Farm Bureau wants to hire these noncitizens for labor.

 

[FireDragon76]

I'm wondering if we get to deport all those illegals if we'll be able to give those opportunities to our poor own poor citizens. Those construction jobs oay pretty well. The poor could snatch those jobs up and end up with skills and opportunities. It would be a great trade off. It should lower the poverty rate for Americans.

The effect would be limited, and confined to certain jobs. The vast majority of construction jobs in the US aren't done by illegal immigrants.

 

[rjs330]

The effect would be limited, and confined to certain jobs. The vast majority of construction jobs in the US aren't done by illegal immigrants.

Limited though it may be, it still would help. Americans could do those jobs. Americans SHOULD do those jobs.

 

[essentialsaltes]

American Farm Bureau Federation

They are straight up saying they want to hire non-citizens. And they don't want E-Verify in place unless they get to hire non-citizens.

And now for housing. Not so much directly on E-Verify, but just the facts on the ground.

In Trump’s America, who will build new homes?​

The National Association of Home Builders estimates that at least 1.5 million homes need to be built to meet growing demand.

There is a need for more construction workers, as well: There were 282,000 construction jobs open as of September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The construction industry has a hard time finding workers as it is.

Home builders surveyed at the end of last year ranked the skilled labor shortage as the top challenge they faced in 2023 and the top expected challenge for 2024, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

Stan Marek, CEO of MAREK, a construction company in Houston, said it’s a struggle to find legal employees to fill open roles at his firm.

“Even if the [US citizen] kids today had vocational training, they’re probably still not going to go into the trades, because they have too many options that are easier,” he said. “The only people who want to do this work are immigrants.”

Jim Tobin, the CEO of the NAHB, told CNN that immigrant labor has helped fill those job gaps.

“Immigrant labor is really important for our ability to continue to build homes affordably,” said Tobin. “Anything that would have an impact on the labor supply, and, in this case, the immigrant labor supply, does give us concern about our ability to meet the housing needs of the country.”

More than one-third of construction workers in the labor force are foreign-born, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Housing

Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry​

"It would devastate our industry, we wouldn't finish our highways, we wouldn't finish our schools," said Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, a Houston-based commercial and residential construction giant. "Housing would disappear. I think they'd lose half their labor."

That Texas relies on undocumented labor is one of the state's open secrets, despite Republicans' tough-on-immigration stances.

In 2022, more than a half million immigrants worked in the construction industry, according to a report by the American Immigration Council and Texans for Economic Growth. Nearly 60% of that workforce was undocumented.

"There are more undocumented people working in Texas right now than there are unemployed people in Texas," Perryman said.

(Farms)

California farmers were big Trump backers. They may be on collision course over immigrant deportation​

It’s not yet clear how Trump’s rhetoric on deportations will play out. He and his advisers have stressed that their first priority will be criminals and those who pose a threat to national security. It is possible that most farmworkers, documented or not, would be unaffected.

This seems to be where Trump team talk is now. Basically the same as the Deporter in Chief Obama's plan to prioritize deporting dangerous people. Deporting all people here illegally would harm business and be laughably impossible/expensive.

 

[Vambram]

Bottom line is this, in my opinion. The illegal immigrants should not be here. How many other nations have allowed millions upon millions of illegal immigrants into their country? Why should the finite resources of the USA be expected to take on the multiple millions of illegal immigrants from all over the world? If the USA does need more workers, then bring them here LEGALLY.

 

[essentialsaltes]

If the USA does need more workers, then bring them here LEGALLY.

For that we need to change our immigration laws.