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‘If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?’ Undocumented workers could be key to Texas recovery.
The Washington Post ^ | Sept. 04, 2017 | Arelis R. Hernández and Aaron C. Davis

Posted on 09/05/2017 12:45:50 PM PDT by Hadean

HOUSTON — Everywhere Samuel Enríquez looks, he can see the work that needs to be done. But because he is in the United States illegally, he knows he can’t earn an official paycheck in this city’s recovery.

The carpenter from El Salvador sits on a curb outside a home improvement store, hoping a passer-by will offer $10 an hour to help rip out sewage-soaked carpets or rotting drywall. Having lived in the United States for a year, he believes Texas is as good a place as any to seek refuge, because that’s where the work is now, even if some government officials want him and others like him to leave the country.

“If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?” says Enríquez, 36, waiting along with about two dozen other laborers seeking work. “We do more for less.”

It will take an army of workers to reconstruct a vast swath of Southeast Texas, including the sprawling metropolis of Houston, that was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Whether the region can do it without fully embracing workers like Enríquez will soon be put to the test — with reverberations that could be felt nationwide.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: harvey; illegalaliens; illegals; texas
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1 posted on 09/05/2017 12:45:50 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: Hadean

the B.S. is deeper than the water in flooded Texas


2 posted on 09/05/2017 12:47:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Hadean

“If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?”

You fidiot!

We’re Americans. We know how to do this sort of thing better than any other group on the planet.


3 posted on 09/05/2017 12:47:47 PM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: Hadean

Americans will rebuild. Americans who are getting paid the market rate without illegal alien labor for their work will rebuild.


4 posted on 09/05/2017 12:48:10 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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“If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?”

AMERICANS will, you dip$#!+. Hijo de puta!

GTFOOMC!!!

5 posted on 09/05/2017 12:48:21 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Hadean

“We do more for less.”

Is it to “code”?


6 posted on 09/05/2017 12:48:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Hadean

Yeppers. Before Harvey made landfall, I, Captain Obvious, predicted this.


7 posted on 09/05/2017 12:48:49 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: x1stcav

If only we had a President who had experience building things. /S


8 posted on 09/05/2017 12:48:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Hadean

Blacks : who’se gonna pick the cotton
Mexicans : who’se gonna mow the lawn/change hotel bed sheets
China : who’se gonna make all your cheap plastic crap


9 posted on 09/05/2017 12:49:19 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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So, if guest workers are needed, reinstate the Bracero Program or other legal guest worker problem. It just amazes me that this country can't come up with something that simple and workable.
10 posted on 09/05/2017 12:50:51 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Hadean

Texans and other legal US citizens


11 posted on 09/05/2017 12:50:51 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Hadean

I am long past tired of the idea that American do not perform any kind of dirty, sweaty, physically demanding work. I know far too many citizens who do jobs that would cause many of these “Dreamers” to recoil in pearl-clutching horror.


12 posted on 09/05/2017 12:50:51 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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YOU just Enjoy your WALK HOME!

Leave the Building to USA


13 posted on 09/05/2017 12:51:00 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: NorthMountain

America is full of tradesmen looking for work.


14 posted on 09/05/2017 12:51:11 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: SpaceBar
Blacks : who’se gonna pick the cotton Mexicans : who’se gonna mow the lawn/change hotel bed sheets China : who’se gonna make all your cheap plastic crap

American teenagers: Whose gonna eat all these Doritos?
15 posted on 09/05/2017 12:51:15 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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So the WP is suggesting that we can only rebuild Houston using unlicensed, unregulated contractors? LOL.


16 posted on 09/05/2017 12:51:25 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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We built this place from nothing. We can handle rebuilding.


17 posted on 09/05/2017 12:51:29 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Hadean

Not to worry, Pedro.

We’ll figure it out.


18 posted on 09/05/2017 12:51:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Hadean

We’re Americans, out of many, we are one. We can get along just fine without illegals.

Just watch.


19 posted on 09/05/2017 12:52:32 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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Actually the REAL WORK is going to be in Florida and especially Puerto Rico, at least based on the Irma projections.


20 posted on 09/05/2017 12:52:34 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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