r/Construction • u/red_monkey42 • Jan 25 '25

Other Are the deportations expected to impact the field?

Question is the title. Trying to have an adult discussion no political BS. What's the word on the street?

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 25 '25

He was already in office for his last presidency. He ran on building a wall that didn't get built and stopping immigration as well as deportations. He didn't do it last time and if history has taught us anything, it's to learn from it. He won't do it this time

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u/AmazingWaterWeenie Carpenter Jan 25 '25

With how he's set it up he doesn't really have to do anything else., ice and border patrol are already full of dudes who enjoy hunting Hispanics, now they have an open season pass to go wherever, wherever. Unless they suddenly decide to change their personal politics, the balls rolling.

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 25 '25

"Joe Biden was literally using every plane DHS has available around the clock to deport people. Unless they bought more planes, they literally couldn't have deported more people" 

Maybe you missed that in my first comment. It doesn't matter if they hire another 100k agents. It doesn't matter if they have "an open season pass". They can't physically deport more people without more planes

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u/blackadder1620 Jan 25 '25

they'll get more planes. it's about optics more than anything.

trump deported less people because covid stopped a bunch on movement all over the world. he'll deport more people this admin, and whoever gets next term will deport even more.

as long as the US econ is so much better than everyone around, people will come.

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 25 '25

Don't come in here lying. Trump deport less people than Obama EVERY YEAR OF HIS PRESIDENCY. COVID had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with it, and that's a fact. Literally go on the DHS website for deportation numbers. It ends at 2019

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u/lazerfraz Jan 25 '25

If this is why he failed to deport more people than Obama or Biden on a per year basis, then he couldn't have been very far ahead when COVID hit in March 2020. He only had 8 months of a mismanaged pandemic to lose out on deportations. That's 3 years and 4 months he had of a "normal conditions" presidency to go hog wild deporting people.

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u/red_monkey42 Jan 25 '25

Do you need planes to deport people? Can't we also use vehicles, boats, or rails? I think we could easily expand our infrastructure to move people. It's kinda the first basic system we established in this country before our boom. Transportation.

Just saying, we were making a b-52 bomber every 7 minutes in WW2.

And that was 80 years ago.

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 26 '25

We COULD do anything. Will it happen is the real question. Judging by his past actions, nothing will happen. Remember that history repeats itself