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Eugene

(66,418 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:16 AM Wednesday

Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their 'God-fearing, family-oriented' immigrant work

Source: Fortune

Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their ‘God-fearing, family-oriented’ immigrant workers

Eva Roytburg
Tue, September 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM EDT
4 min read

On construction sites across Baldwin County, Ala., workers are vanishing mid-shift. Not because they quit, but because immigration agents hauled them away—the “God-fearing, family-oriented” laborers who braved blistering summer heat on rooftops to support their families.

Now, contractors warn the raids are deepening a labor shortage that already threatens the state’s economic prosperity: Even in Alabama, where 65% of voters backed President Donald Trump with immigration as a top campaign issue.

Russell Davis, executive vice-president of the Home Builders Association of Alabama, told Fortune the industry is already feeling the shock.

“We’ve had several situations where we’ve had job sites raided, for lack of a better term… and it is a cause of concern,” he said. “It’s definitely affected the labor market in general,” he added, with ripple effects beyond undocumented workers.

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Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their 'God-fearing, family-oriented' immigrant work (Original Post) Eugene Wednesday OP

Oh, come on. Why aren't they celebrating? They got exactly what they voted for. tanyev Wednesday #1

Cwy me a wiver of teahs. ananda Wednesday #2

But you dumbfucks BOSSHOG Wednesday #3

What's that phrase? Bettie Wednesday #4

They got exactly what they voted for. Clouds Passing Wednesday #5

Womp womp UpInArms Wednesday #6

Surely there are tens of thousands of good ole boys ready to get up on dem roofs with the hot mops Prairie Gates Wednesday #7

Many industries will be hurt by these mass deportations. Coldwater Wednesday #8

tanyev

(47,897 posts)

1. Oh, come on. Why aren't they celebrating? They got exactly what they voted for.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:19 AM

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ananda

(33,342 posts)

2. Cwy me a wiver of teahs.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:20 AM

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Snowflakes.

BOSSHOG

(43,736 posts)

3. But you dumbfucks

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:21 AM

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Wore the hats and voted straight party. Is the cultism wearing off?? Did he who must be obeyed give you one more year. Are ya happy? Is there joy in hating what is good about America and happiness in ignorance?

Bettie

(18,905 posts)

4. What's that phrase?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:24 AM

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

They are receiving their stupid prizes now.

Clouds Passing

(5,904 posts)

5. They got exactly what they voted for.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:27 AM

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UpInArms

(53,437 posts)

6. Womp womp

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:28 AM

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Motherfuckers …

THIS is what YOU voted for.

Prairie Gates

(6,347 posts)

7. Surely there are tens of thousands of good ole boys ready to get up on dem roofs with the hot mops

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:37 AM

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That was the idea, right?

Coldwater

(225 posts)

8. Many industries will be hurt by these mass deportations.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:38 AM

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At the office building I work, most of the cleaners are Hispanic.

Not saying they’re illegal but many of them don’t speak English.

The same goes for these landscaping companies, although many of them still have Italian names, most of their workers are Hispanic immigrants.

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