The immigration raids are crushing L.A.’s fire recovery and California’s economy

The crew had poured a concrete foundation on an empty lot in Altadena when I pulled it the other day. Two workers were loading equipment on trucks, and the third was reviewing the fresh cement that would sit under a new house.

I asked if there was any problem in finding sufficient workers because of how the work went and the ongoing migration raids.

“Oh, yes, a worker said, shaking his head. “Everyone is worried.”

The other said you need a crew of 10 or more when fresh concrete is poured into such a big job, but it was difficult.

“We’re still working,” he said. “But as you can see, it goes very slowly.”

Eight months after the destruction of thousands of home forest fires, Altadena is still a way to rebuild any big, and so is the Pacific Palisades. But the immigrant Raids beat the Economy of CaliforniaIncluding the construction industry. And the US Supreme Court’s decision this week Green Lights Raced Profile Creating UCLA has created new fears about “deportation will consume the construction labor force” as an estimation of UCLA He warned us in March.

Anyway labor 25% to 40% of the workers are in the construction sector where they are immigrants according to various estimates. As swabs slow down construction and tariffs and trading wars create less and more expensive materials, housing shortage becomes an even deep crisis.

In the prediction of Anderson, Senior Economist Jerry Nickelsburg says not just deportation, but the threat. If people without document are afraid of appearing to build plasterboard, Nickelsburg said to me, “It means that you have finished the houses much slower and that means that less people are employed”.

Now look, I’m not an economist, but it seems to me that after President Trump promised the whole country, we turned to the “golden age of the American welfare, and drowning the state with the greatest economy of the nation may not be its best benefit.

Especially National economic indicators are not exactly pinkWhen we did not see the promised decline in the price of grocery and consumer goods and the labor statistics were so embarrassing, he fired the head of the Bureau of Statistics and changed him with someone else, just to see him more terrible work numbers A month later.

I had only an economic class in the university, but I don’t remember a chapter about construction workers, car washer, elderly care workers, cleaners, nannies, gardeners, and other people who have a desire to appear unlike violent criminals allegedly allegedly allegedly we have been allegedly.

Now let me give you my e -mail address here. His Steve.lopez@latimes.com.

And why am I telling you that?

Because some of the experiences are foamy, foam and itching to lie down and say that it means this illegal illegal.

So go and send me e -mail if necessary, but here is my answer:

We have been lying for decades.

People come across the border because we want them. We all beg them. And by us, any industry, agricultural business, hospitality and construction and health services, many of which are managed by conservatives and Trump supporters.

Why do you think so much Employers avoid using the federal e-birth system To extract undocumented workers? Because they don’t want to admit that most of their employees are undocumented.

In Texas, Republican MPs cannot stop the demonization of immigrants and cannot stop introducing dozens of bills in order to necessarily necessarily necessarily necessarily necessarily use the e-birth. However The last one, just like what was previously died.

From where?

Because harsh conversation is a lie and no longer ashamed of hypocrisy. It is a climate of corruption in which no one has an integrity to confess what is clear – that the Texas economy is partially supported by an undocumented labor force.

At least in California, Six Republican MP He begged Trump in June to facilitate the raids affecting business in farms and construction sites and restaurants and hotels. Please do honest work on the migration reform, they begged, so that we can fill our labor needs more practical and humanely.

It is logical, but politically, the barbarians who seek Capitol and defeated as presidents as chairman of the patriots, although they enjoy their time, but they do not play ice commandos to throw the streets and arrest tamale sellers.

Small businesses, restaurants and mothers and pops are particularly difficult, he says Maria Salinas, Los Angeles Region Chamber of Commerce Chairman of the Executive Committee. The survivors of the pandemi then kneel again by the raids.

Salinas said to me with the Supreme Court decision, “I think it is very afraid that it will return more than before,” he said.

From a wider economic perspective, mass deportation, especially when it is open The majority of people targeted Trump is not violent criminals that he continues to speak.

Giovanni Peri, Director of Global Migration Center of UC Davis Global Migration, said we are in the midst of an demographic transformation of Japan, which is interested in the difficulties of an aging population and restrictive migration policies.

Peri, in the next decade, we will lose about one million working age American in the next decade, ”he said. “We will have a very large elderly population and this will demand a lot of services… Home Health Services [and other industries]But there will be less and less workers to do such jobs. “

Dowell Myers, a USC demography, It has been examining these trends for years.

“The numbers are simple and easy to read, My Mers said. Each year, the rate of workers-replacement decreases and will continue to do so. This means that even if there is a number of retired balloons, we are turning to a critical problem of working people who pay to social security and Medicare.

If we really want to stop the migration, Myers said, “We must send all ice workers to the border. However, if you take the people who have been here for 10 and 20 years, there is an extreme social cost and an economic cost.”

From Pasadena Home Depot, Despite the raid risk of daily workers, three men gave hope for work. The two told me they had legal status. “But there’s very little work, G Gavino Dominguez said.

The third, who said he was undocumented, left the parking lot into the apartment and left his services to the contractors.

Umberto Andrade, a general contractor, was loading concrete and other materials on his truck. He told me a fearful employee for a week and he lost the other for two weeks. They’ve got back because they’re desperate and they need to pay their bills.

“Housing scarcity in California was already terrible before the fires, and now 10 times worse,” he said Realtors Brock Harris, The Altadena reconstruction project represents a temporary developer after visiting ice agents in June.

Harris, with the flow of building permits, “these men to slow down or closing the business sites is more than getting angry. You will see fewer people who want to start a project.”

Most people on a business site have legal status, Harris said, “But if the rowing never hit the ground, costs are met by everyone and slowing down La’s reconstruction.”

Many multiplication on the road to the golden age of prosperity.

Steve.lopez@latimes.com