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Uses directed so here's another update on F around and find out. As Steve Inskeep writes, this is fasc A red State construction CEO and it's in Texas goes on record not wanting to lose immigrant workers. Who would have thought he favors a guest worker program to legalize employees along the same lines as DACA hopes Congress will act. You mean like comprehensive immigration reform? You mean when President Biden was trying to push for strong borders which we all agree we should have, but also to ensure that there is a labor force of people here who are not criminals who are working hard to support our economy and red state governors like yours and Republican voters and MAGA Republicans all said kill that bill. Kill that bill. You're now saying you want what Biden was proposing now that Donald Trump wants to do bloody mass deportations combined with 25% tariffs on Mexico, which is about to do retaliatory tariffs on the United States and 25% tariffs on Canada. Let's dig into this article from this Texas red state CEO who apparently wants what Biden had been proposing and which Republicans gutted. Take a look. It's articles from NPR by Julian Aguilar. Here's what it says. Clear signals President elect Donald Trump's plans to make good on his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants in a second term has sparked concerns among some in Texas business and economic sectors who say mass deportations could upend some of the state's major industries that rely on undocumented labor, chief among them the booming construction industry. And I just want to pause there too, because it's my firm view also that if you have a path towards citizenship, as this Republican red state CEO is talking about, then you can also treat labor with dignity. We shouldn't have like indentured servitude. We should treat labor with dignity. And these are jobs that American workers are not filling. I just think it's important that I acknowledge that at the top of this video goes on to say quotes Stan Merrick, CEO of Merrick, a Houston based commercial and residential construction giant, quote, it would devastate our injury. We wouldn't finish our highways. We wouldn't finish our schools. Housing would disappear. I think they'd lose half of their labor. I think this is just me talking. It's more than half of their labor. That's what common sense in my own observations of these types of things instruct it goes on to say talk of the mass roundup comes as Texas is booming. Texas cities regularly appear on lists of the country's fastest growing communities, and construction cranes and workers donning safety vests are common sites in most major cities. That Texas relies on undocumented labor as one of the state's open secrets, despite Republicans tough on immigration stances. I don't really think it's a secret. I just think it's hypocrisy. But I digress. In 2022, more than half a 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. Again, my own view, it's probably closer to 85% but that's just my own view. The state needs to leverage both US Born and immigrant talent to fill construction jobs that power the Texas economy. Mag is referring to these hard working people in America people. These are people who deserve dignity. MAGA refers to them as vermin, as terrorists, as criminals. They're not. They want to do work site raids. Just even think about how the fear of work side raids that MAGA is talking about would cause a lot of harm just to work and productivity here. Ray Perryman, the president and CEO of the Waco based Perryman Group, says it's not remotely practical to round up and deport everyone. He said the reason Texans need so many immigrant laborers is simple. The Texas workforce isn't large enough to keep pace with its growth. But. But we've been told now for three years they're taking the jobs away. Now you're telling me that the workforce actually wasn't large enough and these jobs weren't being taken away but needed to be filled so that other Americans can prosper? Is that what you're telling me? Whoa. It says if we've been talking about this for four years. Like Merrick, he worries that a massive roundup could have a chilling effect on the Texas economy 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, perryman said. And also, those people ain't working those jobs. Let's be real here. The reason, for example, why the Haitian migrants led to Springfield, Ohio's economy doing well is because other people couldn't fill those factory jobs that existed. The Haitians moved there, got lawful status, they were invited there and then they were demonized for eating cats and dogs.
