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LeftInTX

(32,761 posts)
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 05:02 AM Mar 10

Border Protection contractor cuts most jobs at 5 Texas migrant camps

Source: San Antonio Express-News

A contractor providing staffing for five Customs and Border Protection migrant camps along the southern border has laid off 666 people, apparently in response to a continuing decline in illegal border crossings.

LUKE Holdings Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., dismissed employees from sites in Del Rio, Donna, Eagle Pass, Laredo and El Paso, according to a notice Wednesday to the Texas Workforce Commission.

Their last day was Feb. 27, when workers received letters from the company saying the federal government had mandated the immediate firings as part of a contract modification.

"We must conduct employee separations in connection with the government ordered staff reduction at the location where you provide services," wrote Norma Tejeda, LUKE's vice president of human resources. "At the present time, this action is expected to be permanent."



Read more: https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/customs-border-protection-migrant-camps-layoffs-20204864.php



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I'm sure many of the 666 employees at these camps were Trump voters! The irony! They voted for him because of their jobs. Now they're without a job!
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Border Protection contractor cuts most jobs at 5 Texas migrant camps (Original Post) LeftInTX Mar 10 OP
I imagine that the cost of paying the contractor to operate the five camps was a pretty penny MichMan Mar 10 #1
They're just gonna feed them to each other instead of food. "Efficient" like that. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 10 #2
Can't find enough 'illegals', huh? travelingthrulife Mar 10 #3
Border crossings plunge to lowest levels in decades: New data MichMan Mar 10 #4
No surprise,who the FUCK would want to come here to live? Bengus81 Mar 10 #5

MichMan

(14,898 posts)
1. I imagine that the cost of paying the contractor to operate the five camps was a pretty penny
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 07:33 AM
Mar 10
 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
2. They're just gonna feed them to each other instead of food. "Efficient" like that.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 08:05 AM
Mar 10

Call reports of it "fake news."

travelingthrulife

(2,081 posts)
3. Can't find enough 'illegals', huh?
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 08:26 AM
Mar 10

Most sensible people would realize the border crisis is entirely fabricated.

Bengus81

(8,697 posts)
5. No surprise,who the FUCK would want to come here to live?
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 09:11 AM
Mar 10

Not till Mango Mussolini is dead and gone............

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