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1WorldHope

(1,834 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:12 AM Jun 2025

ICE raids expected in Lincoln and Crete NE today

I got this info from a neighbor and I don't know how they know. But since ICE was in Omaha yesterday it makes sense. Spread the word the focus is roofers and I assume meat packing in Crete.

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ICE raids expected in Lincoln and Crete NE today (Original Post) 1WorldHope Jun 2025 OP
Who will do those jobs if they are deported? nt doc03 Jun 2025 #1
People who need roofers and meat packers are about to find out. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #2
Yup. Our HOA put new siding on the townhomes in my MineralMan Jun 2025 #5
Lots of roofing and other home exterior stuff going on in my neighborhood, too. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #6
I'm guessing it will be nine year old children who want to keep a roof over their family's heads. Xavier Breath Jun 2025 #7
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There are only wage slaves. No citizens, "legal" or otherwise, want to take the jobs. Your RW talking point fails. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #10
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Bye. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #12
Are you enjoying your stay? Enjoy it while you can. GP6971 Jun 2025 #14
Well OK then. We can look forward to seeing in line applying for one GP6971 Jun 2025 #13
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But will you do these jobs today? I doubt it. GP6971 Jun 2025 #16
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It's not the job, it's the dismal low pay that is offensive. Go ahead, take a $10/hr job w your "STEM degree" Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #19
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So no penalty for the employers? GP6971 Jun 2025 #21
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You push another reich-wing talking point. It is not a surplus labour supply. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #22
"Legals" is reich-wing framing and language. Are the library computers available today? You reveal yourself. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #17
They are being paid and not forced to do it JI7 Jun 2025 #24
Action against Don Bacon abbeyco Jun 2025 #3
I feel so helpless. I call the reps and senators but they are all R's. 1WorldHope Jun 2025 #4
Hope those who knowingly employ undocumented workers are arrested for human trafficking. Wingus Dingus Jun 2025 #8

MineralMan

(150,551 posts)
5. Yup. Our HOA put new siding on the townhomes in my
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:43 AM
Jun 2025

development. That gave me a chance to practice my Spanish. Oddly, I didn't ask the siding workers if they were documented. They worked fast and well on the job. I guess that's enough for me.

Ocelot II

(128,864 posts)
6. Lots of roofing and other home exterior stuff going on in my neighborhood, too.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:51 AM
Jun 2025

I walk around the neighborhood every day and I haven't heard a word of English coming from any of those crews. These residential construction workers (undocumented or otherwise; ICE doesn't care) are probably pretty safe for now; the raids so far are on places where a lot of folks can be rounded up all at once to make Stephen "Goebbels" Miller's quotas. But before long that will probably change, and nobody will be able to get a roof built or repaired, or crops harvested, or restaurant dishes washed, or hotel beds made, or any of that "invisible" cheap labor we take for granted.

Xavier Breath

(6,420 posts)
7. I'm guessing it will be nine year old children who want to keep a roof over their family's heads.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:52 AM
Jun 2025

Just as it was planned.

Response to doc03 (Reply #1)

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
10. There are only wage slaves. No citizens, "legal" or otherwise, want to take the jobs. Your RW talking point fails. . nt
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:15 AM
Jun 2025

Response to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #10)

GP6971

(37,565 posts)
13. Well OK then. We can look forward to seeing in line applying for one
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:21 AM
Jun 2025

of those jobs. Right?

Response to GP6971 (Reply #13)

Response to GP6971 (Reply #16)

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
19. It's not the job, it's the dismal low pay that is offensive. Go ahead, take a $10/hr job w your "STEM degree"
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:30 AM
Jun 2025

You are talking through your hat.

Response to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #19)

Response to GP6971 (Reply #21)

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
22. You push another reich-wing talking point. It is not a surplus labour supply.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:38 AM
Jun 2025

It is a fully employed labour supply. Unemployment in the US is holding steady. The labour market is tight. People aren't even swapping jobs.

Nobody among the "tons of teens/20 somethings with plenty of time" you claim to be familiar with is going to move to Nebraska because $10/hr jobs suddenly become $15/hour jobs.

And your male supremacy slip is showing the way you assume only males work there.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
17. "Legals" is reich-wing framing and language. Are the library computers available today? You reveal yourself. . . . nt
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:26 AM
Jun 2025

abbeyco

(1,581 posts)
3. Action against Don Bacon
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:31 AM
Jun 2025

for speaking out that he won’t be a rubber stamp on felon47’s full agenda? Seems about right to me as he’s hateful, petty & vindictive. However, it won’t be the business who get dinged for hiring these workers…

1WorldHope

(1,834 posts)
4. I feel so helpless. I call the reps and senators but they are all R's.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:36 AM
Jun 2025

Do Republicans have any heart? Talk about shooting yourself in the bread basket. I guess cruelty has no common sense.

Wingus Dingus

(9,173 posts)
8. Hope those who knowingly employ undocumented workers are arrested for human trafficking.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:05 AM
Jun 2025

Oh wait, that won't happen. LOL.

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