Deportation vow alarms construction industry

CAPITOL HIGHLIGHTS

The state’s construction industry is voicing concern that President-elect Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants would cause major labor shortfalls, according to the Texas Standard.

“It would devastate our industry, we wouldn’t finish our highways, we wouldn’t finish our schools,” said Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, a Houston- based commercial and residential construction giant. “Housing would disappear. I think they’d lose half their labor.”