Home Depot parking lot labor market at heart of ICE immigration battle

Home development stores were once filled with eager workers looking for one -day job. The contractors, who needed temporary assistance, developed a symbiotic ecosystem that would shake and collect several workers during the day. Workers can get one -day fee and contractors can get cheap, temporary help without all documents.

Since President Trump has been re -elected, he has warned the unpredictable results for the sectors affiliated to immigrant craftsmanship, including labor experts, construction and housing houses. LAST Migration and Customs Execution Raids in the Los Angeles region Home warehouse Store parking lots led to protests and put a nationwide palette in the daytime workers’ community. However, beyond the deployment of troops and the political finger sign, workers’ experts, home depot parking sweeps may have extensive effects on whether critical studies in the United States have been carried out.

George Carrillo, CEO of Hispanic Construction Council, estimates that there are tens of thousands of “parking lot workers” throughout the country, and that the latest ice raids will have a creepy effect throughout the entire economy.

“We have members who see what to do; they are afraid.” He said.

The implementation of the workers gathered in the home development store to look for employment is a long -standing part of the labor force view, and most of these workers come from Latin American countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, among the countries targeted by the Trump administration’s strict immigration policies.

“They are trying to make a living and make a difficult decision: throw my head out and deported or not support and support my family.” He said. Carrillo said he had heard more reports about the ice raids targeting the construction areas where all workers’ groups are collected.

Already delayed construction projects will be delayed

The Spanish Construction Council, which is already worse in a constant labor market in the United States, is estimated to be a famine of construction labor force of 500,000 workers. Carrillo said Trump’s construction projects were 14% behind the program when he took office, but this increased to 22% because the construction of the construction labor market is thinning the construction labor market.

“We are further behind in the projects, and wherever there is a pressure, we see it all over the country, people do not appear for work.” He said. Daytime workers are not workers in major construction projects, which is more likely to be taken by subcontractors who need to paint or re -framing cabinets. “If the smaller subcontractor cannot do these things, it has a fluctuation effect in the construction sector.”

Jason Greer, a working consultant and CEO of Greer Consulting and CEO, says that print causes slowing down in construction due to labor shortage. “Daytime workers are afraid to appear in places like Lowes, Home Depot, etc. because they don’t want to be arrested by ice.” He said.

Although Ice did not comment directly on home depot raids, they told Los Angeles NBC affiliated establishment “US immigration and customs protection officials and representatives give priority to public security by finding, arrest and removing and removing guilty foreign criminals and immigration violations every day on the streets every day.” “If all aliens violating the US immigration law can be arrested, detained and removed by the final order, it was removed from the USA

Home Depot tells CNBC that they are not involved in any ice operation, although they do not allow workers to sell their services in facilities.

“Like many enterprises, we have a long -standing policy that has been going on for a long time that prohibits everyone from selling goods or services in our property,” like many businesses. ” He said.

“I will also add that we are not informed when ice activity is realized and that we are not included in the operations. We instruct the partners to report the event immediately and not to operate for their safety.

Lowe’s And Menards did not respond to comments.

A more complex migration problem

Rick Hermanns, Hirequest CEO of the staff agency, who placed 70,000 workers from C-Suite to the day workers, says that the upward flow effects from the pressures on daily workers are complex and enormous and no political party problems.

Hermanns said that the LAX application encourages people directly or indirectly to hire unauthorized workers and created a two -layer system where some workers are paid under the table, while companies such as Hirequest and others pay the compensation and social security of the workers. Hermanns says that these compulsory expenses constitute at least 20% of the paid wages, so under -table workers create a competitive disadvantage. However, Hermanns said that a pressure, like what is now, also creates complications, because it already reduces a fine working pool, which is higher and then spreads to the economy in the form of inflation.

“The fluctuation effects are much deeper and wider than everyone understands.” He said. “To me sincerely, our entire political organization is not bad about looking at all the effects.”

Higher wages may be good, because they attract people to the pool of workers who can sit at home. “However, it is incredibly bad for inflation to move the basic fee to 20 percent higher.” He said.

For businesses, Hermanns says that the whip between administrative approaches creates uncertainty. “I prefer to be more loose or more strict; uncertainty is worse. It is that people from both camps should come together and understand that what we have is unsustainable.” He said.

Atlanta -based immigration lawyer, Loren Locke, says that the existing sweeps of home development store parking lots do nothing to solve the complex immigration state of the country. Locke said that the daily workers gathered in the home development store focusing intensively against immigrants in the parking areas and that the US’s business authority was disproportionately incomplete, and that the population was a good dangerous guilty immigrant source.

Locke, “On the contrary, they are easier to choose to hit ICE’s daily arrest quotas.” He said.

It points to the network of complex immigration programs that have developed over the years and creates an unsustainable system.

“We are currently in such a mess, because there are millions of workers in the USA in the USA.” He said. He continued: “He was allowed and now we’re going back to act like criminals who need to be deported immediately.”

Locke said that there are children who are given Daca status and are now grandmother and grandfather.

“This has not been corrected for all adult lives.” He said.

Meanwhile, the contractors and subcontractors find a small working pool towards the summer season.