It's a play on words: They rebuild when they are available, but Trump is deporting them all. Trump's team has not considered the unintended consequences. And his supporters drank the Kool-Aid
INTRODUCTION
Every action has consequences. Many may be intended, but there are also the hidden ones—the unintended.
The situation today results from what Kool-Aid people have been drinking.
This should not be the case, but it is. This article describes a significant issue in rebuilding California and its unintended consequences.
THE EXTREME
‘No rebuilding without them’: Trump’s immigration crackdown will affect disaster recovery is the position of one person.
Saket Soni, founder of Resilience Force, says skilled restoration workers with various legal statuses have been repairing US cities affected by disasters for years.
He said, “Trump’s deportations will cause chaos for communities trying to rebuild after devastating disasters as many of the skilled disaster-restoration workers are immigrants.
With each disaster, recovery depends on restoration workers, who travel from disaster to disaster, cleaning up and rebuilding American communities while facing hazards such as unstable buildings, ash and other toxins, and water-borne diseases. The immigrants are a skilled and mobile workforce, which will be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate with just American workers.
Saket Soni continued, “Like farm workers, immigrants are indispensable to the fire, flood and hurricane recovery efforts. They are a big part of the clean-up and rebuilding efforts in Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina, all reeling from and recovering from last year’s hurricanes.”
The question is asked, with mass deportation of the immigrant workers, who will complete that work? Who will be on the front lines in California or wherever disaster strikes?
While there is no official count, the current resilience workforce includes tens of thousands of mostly foreign-born workers from Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and the Philippines, among other countries. This diverse mix of skilled workers includes undocumented immigrants, many documented asylum seekers, settled refugees, and those with work permits through temporary protected status (TPS).
Trump’s flurry of executive orders and policy ambitions is upending the entire immigration and asylum system, resulting in unintended consequences.
While expanding workplace raids and mass deportations may satisfy Trump’s anti-immigrant base, the strangling labour shortages will be felt by every American. This includes construction workers and those who work in the fields, provide maid and service support, work in hospitals, and just about everywhere else.
I wonder if Trump has reported his Mexican workers to ICIS – let’s see how he manages Mar-a-Largo without his foreign workers.
MOMENT OF RECKONING
The US is heading for a moment of reckoning. The immigrant workers, for years, have been there working for all, out of sight and largely out of mind. For a 30-second sound bite, Trump has vilified them – they eat the cats and dogs – finding the catch for his base to blame for all their troubles in life. Like Trump, they have to blame someone; they cannot look in the mirror and take responsibility for themselves.
The reckoning? The immigrant workers will be gone, and no one will be willing to replace them. One of the architects of Project 2025 said, “The immigrants are taking the jobs from Americans.” We will now see how willing Americans are to get down and dirty and do what the immigrants were doing to support the country and its population.
CUTTING THE FUNDING
What more did Trump do? During a visit to North Carolina, he announced his desire to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The estimated cost of the damage in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene, which hit six states across southern Appalachia, all of which voted for Trump, is about $60 billion. What hope does this give people facing the most unbearable circumstances?
Also on Friday, Trump visited Los Angeles, where more than 11,000 homes have been destroyed and at least 150,000 people have been displaced. He had to attack, saying, “You don’t need FEMA, you need a good state government; fix it yourself,”
Just what the folks needed to hear: a vile, unsympathetic attack.
Any resident who’s been through a hurricane or wildfire, whether Democrat or Republican, should be able to agree that fires do not make a distinction based on politics.
WE ARE NOT LEARNING FROM THE MISTAKES.
With the raids on immigrants, we will lose their hands, tools and hard work. This happened in 2022 after Hurricane Idalia when Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis passed draconian anti-immigrant legislation. Immigrant workers disappeared, leaving homes to be rebuilt and families in limbo. The rebuilding efforts are still underway and will continue for years with the much-reduced workforce.
Just think of the unintended consequences coming in California because of the immigrant raids and now, the interest by Trump to get rid of FEMA.
THE RESILIENCE WORKFORCE
Trump's actions have unbelievable unintended consequences. It all comes down to pandering to his base and wealthy special interests. Trump is not doing this to Make America Great Again, and people have been buying it because of the flavour of the Kool-Aid.
Immigrants are criminals
Immigrants are taking our jobs
Immigrants are a scourge on our way of life.
Immigrants need to be deported to Make America Great Again.
When reality is:
Immigrants are 253% less likely to be criminals than American Citizens.
Immigrants are doing the jobs that Americans do not want. Even Trump has immigrant workers “taking the jobs of Americans” at his Mar-a-Largo resort and probably at others.
Immigrants provide services that improve your way of life.
Deportation of all immigrants does not solve any problem at the border; it creates many unintended negative consequences.
@openyourojos and all others who drank the Kool-Aid, is this what you voted for? Are you happy? Just think if your home could not be rebuilt because a large part of the workforce is being deported.
Trump continues to spew his steady stream of social media insults, lies and abject hatred. And with all that is not the truth, does the Kool-Aid still taste good?
Go Figure...
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