Posted on 01/09/2025 6:39:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Watching the fires raze Los Angeles, a city I called home for years, has been devastating. Santa Ana winds, blowing through the mountains at speeds exceeding 80 mph, have caused catastrophic damage. The west side of the city is barely recognizable. The Pacific Coast Highway, one of the most iconic stretches of the American landscape, lies in ruins. The surrounding area, home to the equally renowned Sunset Boulevard — celebrated in countless dreams and a witness to innumerable Californian sunsets — has been reduced to ashes.
The full scale of the devastation will be hard to tally for some time. What is clear, however, is the immense challenge that reconstruction will pose. This wildfire is already among the most destructive in the region’s history. Rebuilding will be a monumental task fraught with uncertainty. Building in Los Angeles is notoriously difficult because of complicated permitting and regulations. The city will have to untangle a bunch of its bureaucratic knots — and quickly.
One thing, however, is certain: the rebuilding of Los Angeles will rely heavily on immigrants.
A significant proportion of the region’s construction workforce consists of immigrants. According to a 2020 report by the American Immigration Council, 43 percent of construction workers in California are immigrants. Among these, a majority are of Mexican origin, reflecting a long history of Mexican labor contributing to the city’s development.
“Immigrants are the engine of construction in Los Angeles,” Santiago Ortiz, a local designer and building consultant told me. “Without immigrants working the most critical trades in the industry, we won’t be able to rebuild what we have lost over the last three days.”
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“..They want it both ways...”
That’d be them!
They belong in a mental institution.
LA is too many ‘rats living in an ecosystem with too little sustainable water.
Free the Mono Valley.....
That’s the Washington Compost for you.
Who wants it rebuilt?
If they do they may rebuild it other wise I could care less.
You should care because the US taxpayer is going to pay for it.
Biden says federal government to cover 100% of costs for initial LA fire recovery
Wait til these people see the “new” rates for construction companies and materials. - - Shockwave 2 will hit then
Austin, TX will welcome them (a few of them)
Some of them are excellent, the majority produce low quality work that borders on dangerous.
Are they going to rebuild it as fast as they have in Lahaina, HI and East Palestine, OH?
The word of a Biden!
It is getting hard to think of jobs that Americans haven’t been driven from.
Amazing how these “immigrants” don’t seem to be able to build in their home country.
Once again, the Compost heaving up illegals and having no care about Americans.
They better, because all the sane people left already.
Hey, León...
Legal immigrants?
Or
Illegal aliens?
There’s difference, you know.
ESAD/FOAD Leon !
A:"Hey Davey, are we pouring concrete today?"
I used to draw up house plans and get permits for illegal alien contractors.
The homeowner would go to the building dept with me.
Most of the homeowners I worked with were Hispanics.
They would only hire Hispanics and the Hispanic contractors never
hired anyone but Hispanics.
They got there foothold in Los Angeles when they bussed our kids
to black schools and the Whites moved out of Los Angeles School
District.
Illegal aliens moved in and got jobs building houses in new neighborhoods.
Whites couldn’t compete with them.
This is absolutely true, and it is BECAUSE immigration enforcement has been so lax for so long. Construction jobs that used to support families started slipping in the 70s, as more and more illegals would do the work for less and less. Eventually, virtually all the construction jobs went to illegals, because Americans couldn’t afford to do them. When you look at the devastation in LA and realize how much construction labor will be required to rebuild, you absolutely know that we don’t have enough Americans with the skills needed to do it. Even if a homeowner has the money to rebuild, and I suspect few of them will, finding a contractor to do the job will be next to impossible.
When a latino says only hispanics can do the work, it makes one wonder. When electric goes down after a hurricane for example, electricians from all over America show up to do the work and get power restored. Hispanic contruction and roofing crews also swarm the area. Why can't that happen with those in construction trades who are not hispanic? Swarm SoCal and reclaim the jobs.
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