I wonder if competing real estate developers call ice on each other to keep prices up
This is sofa king stupid. Arresting honest, skilled workers just trying to make a living. I’m a little surprised DR Horton, Lennar, PulteGroup, etc. aren’t up in arms over this. But, I suppose billionaires of a feather flock together?
There are not, and will not be, enough white, skilled construction workers to take the places of these immigrants for many, many years, if ever. The job is tough, pays too little, and the upcoming generations have zero interest in the trades. No one under 30 is going to trade school or getting on-the-job training in construction or any other trade. I said “white”, because that’s exactly what the billionaire fascists want, and imagine will happen. They can’t see the writing on the wall, I guess. Furthermore, it’s a young man’s trade, and the current generation of skilled workers are now aging out. Fifty-year-old men are hard pressed to do such work, and as I said, there’s no one behind them to take their place.
Oh, and it’s fantasy that robots will take their place inside of 30 years. Also, 3D printed homes are just fluff and venture capital bait, and those still need skilled workers for everything but the bare walls.
Isn’t this the same behavior that helped turn Texas blue?
This is 100% the exact reason the rio grande valley flipped to blue, and Texas too as a result
People who voted for trump all 3 times are now voting straight ticket democrat. The podcast The Daily did an episode about this, very eye opening
Related, “Viral video shows ICE descending on South Valley construction site” (arc)
Federal agents in unmarked vehicles descended on a neighborhood construction site in Bernalillo County’s South Valley on Thursday. A viral video circulating on social media shows an unmarked SUV accelerating to pass a pickup truck driving down the street, then quickly braking to cut of the truck as at least a half-dozen men in tactical gear emblazoned with “POLICE ICE” rushed into homes under construction.
