Catherine Rampell

They'll still be destructive to the US economy.

They'll still be destructive to our relationships with our allies, and they'll still probably raise prices.

It'll just be on a slower timeframe.

So there has been a rash of these immigration raids on construction sites, particularly on residential construction sites, where it seems like immigration agents are just kind of like driving around and looking for a house in a suburban neighborhood that is having its siding redone and then rounding up all of the Latino-looking immigrants.

who are working on it.

This has happened in a lot of different places around the country.

I think actually there was a case recently near you, right?

In one of the NOLA suburbs.

Yeah, Kenner.

Yeah, exactly.

That's what I was thinking of, where they, you know, rounded up some roofers.

And in Minnesota this week, there was another case where

some immigration agents basically roped off a house that was under construction where, well, it was like, it wasn't even quite a house yet.

It was the framing of a house.

They chased a couple of the workers up to like the tippy top of the frame, the roof of the frame, but it's like little spindly sticks of wood.

It was sub-zero temperatures and they trapped them up there for a couple of hours and they wouldn't let people bring them warm blankets and things like that.

And

Ultimately, one of the workers got taken away in an ambulance.

Anyway, there are these horrifying things going on.

As you point out, humanitarian consequences of this are awful.