Catherine Rampell

In my view, these are basically like pogroms that are going on, and they're putting people's lives at risk.

But beyond that, there's this question that has been nagging me about why aren't the companies that are hurt by this doing more?

Even if they don't care about the dignity and safety and health of their workers, which they should,

Presumably they care about their bottom line.

They're losing workers.

They're potentially losing customers.

It's become a lot more difficult for them to just do their jobs, particularly since, like I said, they're not just going after people who are undocumented.

They're rounding up anyone who looks Latino, including U.S.

citizens.

There's a big case over one U.S.

citizen who's been detained multiple times in Alabama working on construction sites.

So you'd think that

the construction companies would push back a little bit and they haven't, or at least not very publicly, not very vocally.

I know.

I don't think so.

You know, these are jobs that these are very demanding, difficult, backbreaking jobs.

They're very hard to fill.

It's not like.

I think Americans were being turned away from these positions.

In fact, construction companies have been complaining about labor shortages for years at this point.