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SARose

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Wed Jan 8, 2025, 07:03 AM Jan 8

Some Texas business leaders are apprehensive about Trump's pledged deportations [View all]

BY ALEJANDRA MARTINEZ, ALEJANDRO SERRANO, BERENICE GARCIA, CARLOS NOGUERAS RAMOS AND JOSHUA FECHTER
JAN. 8, 2025

In Texas, undocumented people have built apartment complexes and skyscrapers that changed skylines. They have picked fruits and vegetable in fields, cooked in restaurant kitchens, cleaned hospitals and started small businesses. They have become stitched into communities from El Paso to Beaumont.

Now some of their employers worry that many of them could get deported when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

A number of Texas business leaders interviewed by the Tribune describe a sort of wait-and-see apprehension about Trump’s pledged mass deportations. The impact any deportations could have on Texas’ economy will largely depend on the specifics of what Trump does, business leaders say. But those specifics are not yet clear.

“I don’t think any of us know exactly what’s coming as far as policy — we’ve heard all of the rhetoric,” said Andrea Coker of the North Texas Commission, a nonprofit that promotes the Dallas region.

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But you still voted for him, right?

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