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re: ICE rounds up New Orleans construction workers today
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:03 pm to HeadCall
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:03 pm to HeadCall
quote:
We’re kicking them all out. Get over it.
Look as a general rule, if people want to live here they need to go through the process of becoming a citizen. But we (the US) depend on them to do work that Americans can't earn a living doing.
There is a limited amount of Americans willing to do manual labor. If a contractor wants to expand and take on several jobs at a time, they can't do it without hiring immigrants because they need dependable workers. Many of them are on temporary visas. They come here for 6 months, go home for a few months then come back. Every pay check, they keep just enough to buy what they need and send the rest home.
There are a few crawfish distribution companies relatively close to me and every worker they have are Mexican. In fact, some have moved around where they work. Moved their families. They are all on temporary visas and from what I understand some are going through the process to become citizens.
We (the US) have to show that we are not just welcoming everyone. That if you attempt to come in, there is a relatively high chance they wll get caught and shipped off. That's important for national security, but we also have to recognize how much we depend on their labor.
So if all of them are kicked out, that would hurt a lot of business. So we can't really "kick them all out".
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:27 pm to MrLSU
Oh well that intersection in town will never get completed 
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:36 pm to Klark Kent
And that dude is rich flipping houses.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:10 pm to el Gaucho
quote:
It would be easy to make a system where you don’t need illegals to pick blueberries
up the pay to $25/hr and you could probably get some americans to pick the blueberries
Posted on 5/27/25 at 10:01 pm to Napoleon
quote:
I don't want to hand pick berries in the 100° heat. I keep seeing ads hiring for that at $12/hr.
No, I don’t think you are seeing ads that say that.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 10:26 pm to MrLSU
quote:
Why they were arrested
I think I have an idea why.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 10:48 pm to MrLSU
Looks like Twin Shores Landscaping lost some amigos today.
Aye dios mio!
Aye dios mio!
Posted on 5/27/25 at 10:51 pm to Winterbush
I doubt that.
Round them all up, send all the illegals back.
Take the welfare, ebt, etc, and put them thru actual tests to see if the can work. If so- take away benefits, and now they have a job.
Easy
Round them all up, send all the illegals back.
Take the welfare, ebt, etc, and put them thru actual tests to see if the can work. If so- take away benefits, and now they have a job.
Easy
Posted on 5/27/25 at 11:22 pm to MrLSU
I voted for this 
Posted on 5/28/25 at 12:11 am to YungBuck
quote:
Fine the companies who employed them
In my town, the Feds hammered an irrigation company that employed several illegals. This was several years ago. Heavy fines, criminal charges that resulted in probation. Well, the owners didn’t pay close enough attention because just a few years later did it again. Feds hammered them again, and this time both owners got several years in prison.
So it’s possible to do. And I’m sure these construction workers had recently found themselves in a little trouble with the law. That’s the low hanging fruit ICE is going after first. Tom Homan is a badass!
Posted on 5/28/25 at 4:05 am to concrete_tiger
quote:
I don't want to hand pick berries in the 100° heat. I keep seeing ads hiring for that at $12/hr. I would bet that's 95% illegal aliens who do that work.
Ok, ok. Let’s bring Mexicans here to pick berries. Do you think, for one moment, that their kids (usually a bunch) are going to pick berries? No, they are going to game the system and be permanent leeches. We ran out of Mexican berry pickers. Why do you think we had to turn to Guatemalans and then Hondurans and then Haitians, etc. You getting this?
Posted on 5/28/25 at 5:23 am to Napoleon
quote:simple , just keep flipping burgers so you don’t have to
I don't want to hand pick berries in the 100° heat
Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:18 am to lowspark12
quote:
It’s far more likely these illegals are paying into social security when reality is they’ll never collect a dime of that money down the road.
the fact any of y'all believe they’re working for anything other than cash is hilarious. Everyone involved in these situations knows what’s going on and how it works.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:36 am to OweO
quote:
They come here for 6 months, go homefor a few months then come back. Every pay check, they keep just enough to buy what they need and send the rest home.
quote:
So if all of them are kicked out, that would hurt a lot of business
The situation you are describing hurts the overall economy. Most construction is publicly funded. So in simplification, tax dollars are being used to send out of the country. That’s bad business
Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:47 am to Geauxld Finger
quote:
Looks like Twin Shores Landscaping lost some amigos today.
Noticed that. Made me laugh a bit. I shouldn’t laugh, but I did. They have issues completing jobs now. WTF are they gonna do without half of a workforce?
Posted on 5/28/25 at 7:11 am to MrLSU
We got a new roof last month and all the workers were on super hgh alert!
Posted on 5/28/25 at 7:30 am to MrLSU
It's funny because I keep hearing how this is a bad look to independents. I'm an independent that doesn't really care that much about illegal immigration, and I have no issue with this.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 8:14 am to OceanMan
quote:
The situation you are describing hurts the overall economy. Most construction is publicly funded. So in simplification, tax dollars are being used to send out of the country. That’s bad business
But if that is the only way to meet demand.. Isn't it more of a tradeoff?
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