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Trump’s immigration crackdownBecause skilled disaster sensory workers warned that immigrants were immigrants, most of the skilled disaster supervisors warned, which could cause confusion in the community to rebuild after destroying forest fires and floods.
Republicans and Democratic voters across the United States are out of climate fuel disasters, and thousands of houses and companies have been destroyed and damaged by major hurricanes in Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia due to the continuous fire of Los Angeles.
In each place, recovery depends on the restoration or elastic worker who travels with disasters, reconstruction and reconstruction in disasters, facing risks such as unstable buildings, ashes and other toxins, and Sujin diseases.
“We are facing the moment that can be calculated between such political fame and reality. “
“As with farm workers in the field, immigrants are indispensable for US dismissal, floods and hurricanes. There is no reconstruction without them. ”
“The bulk deportation will completely increase the continuous recovery in Florida, Louisiana and North Carolina last year. It will stall the reconstruction of LA after the fire. So everyone needs these skilled workers. ”
As climate fuel extremes are more intense and destructive, and reconstruction increases, the disaster industry is growing in the United States.
There is no formal, but the current elastic manpower includes tens of thousands of foreign workers, India and the Philippines, throughout the Latin America and the Caribbean Sea. It is a variety of mixed mixes of not only documented immigrants, but also many unprecedented exile applicants, settlement refugees, and experienced workers who have been licensed through temporary protection status.
Fly on Trump’s administrative orders and policy ambitions threatens to increase the entire immigration and asylum system. Expansion of workplace raids and mass deposits can temporarily satisfy Trump’s anti -immigration base, but labor shortages can be felt in several sectors, including architecture, food, hospitality and disaster work.
“The deportation plan has no contact with the reality of the victims without immigrants. Recovery is often the main protection of spiral inequality that often makes poor poor people and returns home. ”
“We are facing the moment that can be calculated between such political fame and reality. And at some point this will be a moral question rather than a political question. ”
Among the largest obstacles faced by destructive fires, tornadoes or floods, there is a lack of labor and funds. Trump’s policy vow will worsen two things.
On Friday, Trump announced his desire to potentially close the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) while visiting North Carolina, where the rural Republican voting community was the worst damage of Hurricane Helene. In a few years, he hit the US mainland. HELENE was one of the $ 2.7 billion disaster to hit the United States in 2024.
“We have a Republican circle that requires FEMA as much as the Democratic Party in California.”
Helene’s North Carolina’s damage costs are almost $ 60 billion in trumps that have reached six states across the southern Aepal Rae teeth. After 4 months of flooding, there are still many things to remove and improve the mold, to replace the roofs, geological repairs, and geological repairs for hills.
Also on Friday, Trump visited Los Angeles, where more than 11,000 homes were destroyed, and the damage caused by two blaze (Palisades and Eaton Fire) is currently estimated to be $ 275 billion. At least 150,000 people were stolen and many asked FEMA for help. Trump said, “I don’t need FEMA, and I need a good state.
FEMA not only provides emergency support for temporary accommodations, food and unemployment benefits, but also repays individuals and states for cleaning and reconstruction costs without personal insurance.
“If you abolish FEMA, you will invite a lot of responses over the next few years because it will not absorb the amount of responsibility or expenditure for the next few years. The administration will rise a very red country that the administration considers the components and disasters continues to occur, ”SONI said.
“We need fema smaller and need larger. Whether it’s Democrats or Republicans, all residents who have a hurricane or forest fires will agree. Fire does not distinguish between political parties. We have a Republican circle that requires FEMA as much as the Democratic Party in California. ”
On Monday, the Trump administration issued a new allocation to immigration and tariff execution (ICE) to attack and arrest. Washington Post Reported.
As Republican Florida Governor Ron Desantis passed the Draco Nianban immigrant legislation, as it happened in 2022 after hurricane Idal Lia, the expansion of workplace raids could enforce some of the restoration workers underground. “Immigrant workers were feared by the tools, rebuilt their homes and left their families as Limbo. Sony speaks in North Carolina, meets a desperate homeowner to repair the house and return home, Sony said.
“Many of the documented people have a passionate foothold in the United States. People who are not yet citizens but are threatened by Trump. People are scared, but these workers have a deep job. There is something divine about working after a fire or hurricane, so your family can come home. What is more important than that? ”
Since Katrina flattened the New Olians in 2005, the elastic manpower has grown significantly, and after that, the city has been rebuilt by mostly un documented Latin workers. Since then, private equity funds have been integrated with small businesses and have little protection and regulatory supervision for workers.
For immigrant workers, labor and living conditions can be cruel, and many people from many countries have hit the climate crisis due to warm greenhouse gas emissions from the planet. The United States is the largest historical contribution.
“We are in Florida because workers from Honduras are now reconstructing the home of Floridians, and forced Hurricane to destroy and leave the house. Do you know how much grace is needed to replace someone else’s roof while you can’t live in your home? Nevertheless, workers are patient with grace and persistence. ” Great Escape: The story of a true story of forced labor and immigration dreams in the United StatesThe story of Indians was seduced to the United States to rebuild New Oleans.
SONI said, “The volunteer efforts of Appal and Los Angeles were special, but the truth is that the size of the damage we see throughout the United States requires a skilled and scaled manpower. “If you deport one generation of restoration workers, you can’t add water and no other generation. It took 20 years to build the workforce we had. Without them, everyone is in danger. ”
