Read in Bloomberg: China wants our undocumented migrants. What!!??? We need those migrants for our economy. According to data from the National Electrical Contractors Association (NCEA), 7,000 new electricians join the industry each year, but 10,000 retire from it, leaving contracting firms and their customers struggling to manage a net deficit of skilled labor. According to ABC, the construction industry will need to attract nearly 650,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2022 to meet the demand for labor. According to the Home Builders Industry shortages for labor are ranging from 39 percent for building maintenance managers to 55% plumbers, and a high of 74 percent for framing crews. And, according to the Premier Nursing Academy, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there are over 1.5 million people employed as nursing assistants, with a projected growth rate of 9% between 2019 and 2029—faster than the rates of most occupations - but there are not enough of such workers to fill the vacancies. Etc.
So we'll send that labor force to China!? Are we stupid? Talk about crippling our potential!
And, according to the US Customs and Border Protection during FY24 they arrested 1,084 undocumented migrants for assault, battery, domestic violence and 29 for homicide, manslaughter. That's a total of 1,113 people. Trump pardoned close to 1,600 Jan6 insurrectionists arrested for similar charges, which by the way marks the beginning of the end of one of the largest investigations in FBI history. I'm sure that there is other data that would illuminate the number of felonies committed by undocumented persons in more detail. Still, my point is that the claim that migrants need to be deported because they make our country unsafe is totally aberrant when our own president releases felons back into our communities (and is a convicted felon himself).
THE entire motivation for all of this is white supremacy. And that is still ridiculously underreported.
Read in Bloomberg: China wants our undocumented migrants. What!!??? We need those migrants for our economy. According to data from the National Electrical Contractors Association (NCEA), 7,000 new electricians join the industry each year, but 10,000 retire from it, leaving contracting firms and their customers struggling to manage a net deficit of skilled labor. According to ABC, the construction industry will need to attract nearly 650,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2022 to meet the demand for labor. According to the Home Builders Industry shortages for labor are ranging from 39 percent for building maintenance managers to 55% plumbers, and a high of 74 percent for framing crews. And, according to the Premier Nursing Academy, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there are over 1.5 million people employed as nursing assistants, with a projected growth rate of 9% between 2019 and 2029—faster than the rates of most occupations - but there are not enough of such workers to fill the vacancies. Etc.
So we'll send that labor force to China!? Are we stupid? Talk about crippling our potential!
And, according to the US Customs and Border Protection during FY24 they arrested 1,084 undocumented migrants for assault, battery, domestic violence and 29 for homicide, manslaughter. That's a total of 1,113 people. Trump pardoned close to 1,600 Jan6 insurrectionists arrested for similar charges, which by the way marks the beginning of the end of one of the largest investigations in FBI history. I'm sure that there is other data that would illuminate the number of felonies committed by undocumented persons in more detail. Still, my point is that the claim that migrants need to be deported because they make our country unsafe is totally aberrant when our own president releases felons back into our communities (and is a convicted felon himself).