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Miles Archer

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Thu Nov 6, 2025, 12:56 PM Thursday

Trump-voting Contractor: Trump's immigration crackdown is making industry labor shortage worse. [View all]

Maryland-based plumbing and heating contractor Kenny Mallick says he voted for Trump and agrees with the president's stance that people who have committed crimes should be deported. But he added that Trump’s immigration crackdown is hurting business.

"We can't do what we do in this country without these people," Mallick told NPR. "They're stitched into every element of our fabric — from the people cooking in restaurants to the ones pouring concrete or laying brick." In return, he says, "we exploit the s—— out of these people."

“The construction industry — in which on average one in three workers is foreign-born — has struggled with a yawning labor shortage that President Trump's immigration crackdown is making worse,” reports NPR.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voting-contractor-fumes-as-policies-slow-construction-and-drive-up-costs/
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