Deportations in Houston: Hispanic immigrant shows the incredible amount of houses under construction by panic to the raids ordered by Trump | United States |
Another state that in the United States palpates desolation in works -casas- under construction, due to the absence of immigrant workers is Texas. From Houston videos circulate in which they capture that where previous workers raised homes today you don’t see “a soul.”
“No immigrant appeared to work in Houston,” he says, while showing the state in which the houses remained, a man who posted the video on Tiktok on January 28.
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The raids and deportations against immigrants have led Latin workers to stay sheltered, far from the view of officials of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE, in English) and the DHS, Department of National Security of the United States.
“No one is working in Houston”
“No one is working in Houston. Here we only work migrants and look at all these houses (constructions) are alone.
There are nothing of workers here, no immigrants, ”says the man.
In Florida and in Chicago (Illinois) they have also disseminated videos to exhibit the world the impact that new migratory measures in the United States have on the workforce.
“There are no people … I can’t believe it,” says a woman while recording in a department store, where the lack of workers and customers is evidenced.
“They are realizing that without Latinos there are not even shops,” he thinks for the material on Tiktok.
The social network is the catharsis vehicle. People regret that there is no working life in business or the countryside.
The crops in farms- reasons- have been so desolate that the foremen (patterns) wonder about Tiktok how they are doing with the arrival of the crews (workers).
And now who is going to throw the floor?, Interrogates a woman from a work under construction.
“Only Cubans came because they are residents,” warns one man in another clip.
“To me the employer told me: ‘Get me workers anywhere,” reports a young man on a ranch. The situation he showed was like a copy of previous scenes. No one is seen working.
Raids and deportations
In the same week of the possession of Donald Trump as US president, for the second time, the raids were authorized and on Friday, January 24, 2025, the authorities announced the start of deportations. This was promised on election campaign days.
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According to the NBC News channel, the United States immigration and customs control service (ICE) of the United States will focus the efforts of its raids in three cities every week, with one objective of at least 1,200 immigrants arrested every day, the EFE agency said .
On Thursday, January 30, the Mexican government reported that it has received 6,244 deported migrants in the first 10 days of the Donald Trump administration in the United States, including at least 1,371 of other nationalities. (YO)