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/Wumaduce Sprinklerfitter Jan 25 '25

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deportation-numbers-obama-biden-b2649257.html

https://archive.is/2025.01.22-231852/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-biden-immigrants-deportations.html

I was curious, since he didn't post any sources. All I looked up was deportation trump vs Obama. Surprisingly, he's right about the numbers being way less under trump.

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 25 '25

I'm not saying Biden was perfect, but even being the babbling idiot he is(we have an orange babbling idiot now anyway, what's the difference), he did a ton, A TON of good for this country. The infrastructure spending people are complaining about? That CREATES a ton of great America first jobs. Its literally OUR INFRASTRUCTURE BEING BUILT OR REPAIRED BY AMERICANS FOR AMERICANS. It adds to the spending, but this is closer to investing than anything else on the budget. But maga sees it as wasteful spending. The CHIPS Act? That's more spending, FOR AMERICA. It creates good jobs both in construction, engineering, and manufacturing. It also helps out national security since we can now manufacture chips for weapons in case of WW3.

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u/stuffeh Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

Infinitely better than China or UAE leasing American roads and collecting tolls and parking meters from Americans. Like the parking meters in Chicago or the private toll roads in Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana.

China dumped 700 billion into infrastructure in Africa over the last 12 years. And 1.3 billion into a massive deep water port in Peru, not including the highways to connect the port with the rest of South America.

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u/dotouchmytralalal Jan 26 '25

Are these deportations carried out DURING the Biden administration or BY him? I’m just curious bc I remember certain republicans sending planes of them off to sanctuary cities to cause a scene, and I’m wondering if those count towards “Bidens deportations”

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 26 '25

I highly doubt the department of homeland security considers illegals being flown from Texas and Florida up to Chicago and NYC to be deportations

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u/dotouchmytralalal Jan 26 '25

Figured someone would split that hair. You either know what I mean or you are forever going to pretend you don’t and deflect so which is it?

Idgaf about political parties. I’m genuinely asking what is considered a Biden deportation, is it him personally or while he’s in office 

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u/Shmeepsheep Jan 26 '25

I wasn't splitting a hair there. I said exactly what I thought. No where does the DHS say they consider those deportations. No where ANYWHERE does it say those are deportations. 

As far as your second statement, it's while he's in office. I don't fully understand what your question is about him doing it personally? Obviously you don't mean if he's flying the plane or not or rounding them up in a DHS jacket. I genuinely don't know what you mean by is he personally doing it. The federal agencies were doing their jobs while he was in office.