For nearly a year, Guerrero had seen similar videos or read news reports of arrests and raids. This was the last straw.
Industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley are drawing attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
Construction leaders in South Texas say stepped-up immigration enforcement is pushing workers off job sites and into hiding, slowing projects and threatening to raise housing costs.
McALLEN One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a ...
Texas is among the states with the highest number of immigrants working in construction. Credit: Shutterstock / Sach336699 The Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant crackdown is worsening ...
Diego Hernandez Garcia was arrested at a work site despite having legal authorization to live in the U.S. Hernandez Garcia is a Maryville High School graduate, local church member and has no criminal ...
DETROIT - A group of Michigan lawmakers and local officials are urging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release on bond a Detroit construction worker who has a pending green card ...
Any time Miriam Stone thinks of her older brother, Ernesto Cuevas Enciso, she says she lights up. But that joy is now dimmed after Cuevas Enciso, a Detroit construction worker, was detained by U.S.
The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry... ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry ...
LAKE WORTH BEACH — A vigil will take place Dec. 11 at the Guatemalan-Maya Center in honor of an unaccounted number of people detained this week during immigration-enforcement operations in central ...
As cars and trucks zoom by, Rurick Palomino points to the underside of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge that spans the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., where his crew of about 30 workers is doing ...