Last July, construction site superintendent Robby Robertson warned his $20 million recreation center project in Mobile, Alabama, would likely be delayed for three weeks. He told Reuters that half of his workers stopped showing up to the site after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on another site in Florida, nearly 230 miles away, afraid of facing the risk of deportation.
The delay would cost Robertson an estimated $84,000, with $4,000 of daily “liquidation damages” mounting for each day the project dragged past its Nov. 1 deadline.
