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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Alejandra Martinez, Alejandro Serrano, Berenice Garcia, Carlos Nogueras Ramos and Joshua Fechter

Some Texas business leaders are apprehensive about Trump’s pledged deportations

Construction workers building homes in far west San Antonio on Dec. 10, 2024.
Construction workers building homes in San Antonio on Dec. 10, 2024. (Credit: Scott Stephen Ball for The Texas Tribune)

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.

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