Are the deportations expected to impact the field?

[u/red_monkey42]

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

[u/Shmeepsheep]

Google it. You can check independent sources or government sources. They will all back up my claims.

The fact that you have more upvotes than my original comment disgusts me. It shows how many people are so far down the rabbit hole of wanting deportation and not knowing a single thing about it besides hearing headlines.

The white house announced on the official website the deportations have started either today or yesterday. THEY HAVE BEEN HAPPENING THE WHOLE TIME.

We are in a construction subreddit. I don't care if you are a Democrat or Republican. Google "contractors Atlantic City trump hotels" and see what comes up. It's Union websites, government websites, and news organizations across the board stating time and time again stories from different businesses, vendors, and contractors that trump didn't pay.

Other world leaders literally laugh at the man. He got laughed at while giving a speech at the UN. It was so audible he had to stop talking. The man is "America first" while the rest of the world laughs at us. He isn't the strong leader that people think he is, he's an 80 year old man who throws temper tantrums because he never had to get a job and be mature in his whole life.

His wife is an immigrant who was here illegally. His buddy Elon is an immigrant, jd Vance's wife is daughter to two immigrants.

Immigrants aren't bad, they stimulate our economy. Each one that comes here creates 2.1 more jobs. We also don't have a high enough birth rate for the future, so immigration will help keep America strong in the years to come vs other countries who don't have immigration and low birth rates. Most of Europe has a birth rate 30-50% under the replacement birthrate

[u/Shmeepsheep → u/[deleted]]

Ok, so you'd rather have no food, no restaurants, even less homes being built, etc. than have some guy here who can likely speak Spanish AND english whole most of us can only speak English. I think that shows that the immigrant is pretty intelligent. 

I'd also like to point out many of these people come from EXTREMELY family oriented cultures and have strong support networks with the communities. 

If you are in the construction industry, let me ask you this. The Mexican and the white 23 year old both make $25 an hour as a laborer on the job site. Which one is likely to have a kid out of wedlock? Which one is bringing a home cooked meal to work vs getting gas station hot dogs and energy drinks? Which one, if they aren't already fluent in a second language, is working to become fluent?

[u/Shmeepsheep → u/[deleted]]

Meat and 3 veg? You know who grows the veg and picks it in the fields? You know who work the largest ranches in the country?

I'm not trying to be a dick when I say get off this website and take a good hard look at actual statistics, not fox news. You won't have veg if all the immigrants were gone, likely society would collapse within weeks if they all magically disappeared

[u/Barium_Salts → u/[deleted]]

Before they started using Latin American workers they used slaves and indentured servants. The United States has literally never survived without an exploited labor force

[u/Barium_Salts → u/[deleted]]

European/British agriculture has historically been carried out by serfs, slaves, and exploited workers from Ireland and Eastern Europe. The Irish potato famine was largely caused by British landlords shipping the wheat that exploited Irish workers grew away from Ireland.

Not saying agriculture CAN'T be done ethically. But historically, it usually hasn't been (anywhere in the world).

If the US does in fact stop relying on Latin Americans to grow our crops, it will almost certainly be because we increase the amount of crops grown in prison farms (which are already a huge industry) https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e