As many as 1 million workers could be deported if status rescinded

They clean federal office buildings in Washington and nurse older people in Boston. They are rebuilding hurricane-wrecked Houston. And working on the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium. The plumbing and heating systems at Fannie Mae’s new headquarters, the porterhouse at Peter Luger Steak House and even the Disney World experience have all depended, in small part or large, on their labor.

They are the immigrants from Haiti and Central America who have staked their livelihoods on the temporary permission they received years ago from the government to live and work in the United States. Hundreds of thousands now stand to lose that status under the Trump administration, which said Monday that roughly 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador would have to leave by September 2019 or face deportation.

Even if they remain in the United States illegally, they, like the young immigrants whose status also is in jeopardy this winter, will lose their work permits, potentially scratching more than 1 million people from the legal workforce in a matter of months. And the U.S. companies that employ them will be forced to look elsewhere for labor — if they can get it at all.

The Trump administration has emphasized that the permissions were originally granted because of wars and natural disasters in the immigrants’ home countries and intended to last only until conditions there improved. But in reality, their permissions have been extended so long that they have become indefinite residents, often buying homes and raising U.S.-born children, even though their status offers no path to citizenship.

They, like other unauthorized immigrants, have become indispensable parts of certain industries, taking jobs that employers say no one else will and that immigration restrictionists say could attract Americans if companies were willing to pay more.

“Immigration restrictionist” is a perfectly acceptable term, it’s not derogatory. We conservatives who were calling for less immigration 15 years ago, when it was less popular to do so, called ourselves that.

The derogatory terms are “anti-immigrant” and “nativist.” Although I use the later term proudly.

I think the NYT using that term is a sign of them capitulating a little and giving us more respect than when they would call us “anti-immigrant nativist bigots.”

So we would have another million jobs for our own citizens.

There is no down side to that.

Americans and America first.

Every illegal immigrant out there costs tax paying Americans money as they take jobs away from other Americans.

Cali is going bankrupt because of their sanctuary status and open border beliefs. Cali has the 6th largest government budget in the world and one quarter of that is spent on the care, keep, feeding, medical, and education of the illegals who they seem to welcome.

Then the morons in Cali government blame our conservative American citizens for its financial shortfalls and raises state taxes at every opportunity.

Illegals who are criminals should never have a choice if they can stay or not. The should be forcefully and immediately ejected from our nation with the force of law demanding that if they return illegally that they will be sent to prison for ten years of hard labor and them deported again.

Any level of government that intentionally shields or protects criminal illegals should instantly, that minute, that second, be deprived of all, every damn dime, of taxpayer generated federal funds until six months after the time they can prove that they have policies and local laws/ordinances in place insuring that they will longer protect or shield illegal criminals.

The left seems to love welcoming and then keeping rapists and violent illegals among us. The motivation for this is for them to obtain another vote for their socialist agenda.

You folks do know that Mexico used to be a Communist nation with a communist government, don't you? You didn't??? Maybe you need to do some reading.

It is not by accident that most immigrants from Mexico, both legal and illegal, tend to be politically based in socialism/communism. It is part of their heritage and well integrated in their family roots.

Same here. My building’s cleaning crew was all black, American, English-speaking people (at least on my floor) for years. The cleaning company changed a few years ago and all those people disappeared. The new cleaning company employs all Spanish speakers who may or may not be here legally. I hope the Americans who previously did the work kept their jobs and worked at other locations or got other, more secure jobs.

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