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Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants.
The Washington Post ^ | January 9, 2025 3:51 PM EST | León Krauze

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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TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aliens; fakenews; immigration; leonkrauze; reallyfakenews; washingtoncompost
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They want it both ways:

  1. Immigrants will rebuild Los Angeles.

  2. Replacement migration is a conspiracy theory.

1 posted on 01/09/2025 6:39:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“..They want it both ways...”

That’d be them!
They belong in a mental institution.


2 posted on 01/09/2025 6:41:49 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LA is too many ‘rats living in an ecosystem with too little sustainable water.

Free the Mono Valley.....


3 posted on 01/09/2025 6:42:04 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s the Washington Compost for you.


4 posted on 01/09/2025 6:42:42 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who wants it rebuilt?

If they do they may rebuild it other wise I could care less.


5 posted on 01/09/2025 6:43:45 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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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

6 posted on 01/09/2025 6:47:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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Color me ambivalent to Los Angeles in ashes.

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)

7 posted on 01/09/2025 6:51:05 PM PST by atc23
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Some of them are excellent, the majority produce low quality work that borders on dangerous.


8 posted on 01/09/2025 6:53:20 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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Are they going to rebuild it as fast as they have in Lahaina, HI and East Palestine, OH?

The word of a Biden!


9 posted on 01/09/2025 6:54:09 PM PST by TigersEye (11 more days of Democrat purgatory then it's MAGA forever!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is getting hard to think of jobs that Americans haven’t been driven from.


10 posted on 01/09/2025 6:59:54 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Amazing how these “immigrants” don’t seem to be able to build in their home country.


11 posted on 01/09/2025 7:00:35 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once again, the Compost heaving up illegals and having no care about Americans.


12 posted on 01/09/2025 7:08:22 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They better, because all the sane people left already.


13 posted on 01/09/2025 7:11:26 PM PST by struggle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, León...

Legal immigrants?

Or

Illegal aliens?

There’s difference, you know.


14 posted on 01/09/2025 7:28:07 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ESAD/FOAD Leon !


15 posted on 01/09/2025 7:30:39 PM PST by A strike (You people keep using cash, how we gonna keep track of your ammo purchases?)
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"Immigrants are the engine of construction in Los Angeles, " Well, what the hell otherwise would Santigo Ortiz say?
16 posted on 01/09/2025 7:36:28 PM PST by A strike (You people keep using cash, how we gonna keep track of your ammo purchases?)
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Q: What did Jim Bowie say to Davey Crocket when they saw 5,000 Mexicans running towards them at the Alamo?

A:"Hey Davey, are we pouring concrete today?"

17 posted on 01/09/2025 7:39:56 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


18 posted on 01/09/2025 7:46:57 PM PST by Haddit
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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.


19 posted on 01/09/2025 8:06:47 PM PST by LizzieD
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e 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

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.

20 posted on 01/09/2025 8:28:44 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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