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The resumption of immigration from President Donald Trump has begun.
United States immigration and customs execution said that this week it has increased efforts to arrest and detain the unauthorized people in the United States. Is aimed at people with criminal background, including minor crimes, According to Wall Street Journal.
The agency has begun Publish daily numbers around arrests and arrests AX, formerly known as Twitter, said he had made about 1,000 arrests every day this week. In contrast, Ice arrested about 310 people a day during former President Joe Biden last year in office, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The construction has traditionally been trusted Employees born abroad to deliver projects. About 26% of construction workers are immigrants and 13% of people occupied in industry They are not authorized to work in the United States, according to the estimates of the Pew Research Center.
But it is not yet clear how Trump’s actions will affect the construction labor market.
“I can guarantee that things will change sometimes from a day to day,” said Jorge Lopez, president of the San Francisco law group, Little Mendelson, immigration and mobility practices group.
After practicing the immigration law through Trump’s first term, López said that the beginning of his second administration rises with his past experience. Trump’s second presidency will provide a series of legal battles in constant transformation.
“It will surprise me if there is nothing but Mayhem for the next four years,” López told Construction Dive.
But Trump’s main assistants are divided, Lopez said. Elon Musk, the leader of the Trump Government Efficiency Department, has defended the H-1B visas, for example. On the other hand, Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Director of Cabinet, is “anti-immigration, period,” said López.
EB-3 and H-1B visas are generally applied to positions that require college degrees, which means that they are less likely to be suitable for construction workers who come to the United States for blue-necked work, while H-2B visas provide temporary foreign workers access to industries, and is more likely to connect entrepreneurs with potential construction workers.
Logistics and questions
While Trump campaigned to deport anyone who was not authorized to live and work in the United States, he would be monumental expensive, said Anirban Basu, an economist in chief of associate builders and contractors. Basu said the estimates indicate that it would cost $ 88 billion to deport 1 million people in a year.
“You are spending $ 88 billion to reduce your workforce. This, in my opinion, does not have economic sense, “he said.
In the meantime, the President issued an executive order on January 20 to end the citizens of the initial part, a measure that has since been temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The states and groups of civil rights filed a lawsuit against the sentence and can expect a long legal battle to see if it can come into force.
The question of the citizenship of the birth part would raise logistics obstacles To determine which people born in the United States are classified into the citizenry, lawyers told the Washington Post. The system for checking the state of the citizenry can also cause delays or errors in the demonstration of the citizenry, even for those who qualify, reported the site.
)[Increased scrutiny and audits are] It is also extremely disruptive to workers, whether they are authorized or not, “said Marisa Diaz, director of the justice of immigrant workers’ justice program of the National New York Labor Law project. “We see workers who have work authorization, but sometimes they are also fired as a result of audits given complications and reversing their information.”
John Dorer, CEO of EB3.work, agreed that Trump’s policies are difficult to predict, emphasizing that the President employs people with work visas in his complex in Florida Mar-Aago. Dorer’s company helps entrepreneurs to connect with foreign-born workers and help employees to obtain EB-3 visas, which allow for permanent residence and work in the United States.
“The optimist in me says that Trump is a pro -goci leader and right now the legal immigration process is very inefficient in relation to the needs of companies,” said Dorer.
Trump’s second administration may lead to immigration reform than to the active anti-immigration stance of his first term, López acknowledged. However, Dorer said, there could be a creepy effect of Trump’s rhetoric and actions.
“If a company only sees or feels it will be difficult to sponsor a worker and will only be a general nightmare under this administration, he will not,” Dorer told Construction Dive. “The same with workers.”
