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- Trump and Texas law discourage workers as city needs them most
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Hurricane Harvey Pummels Houston Area With Floods
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Jose Zamudio, who picks up day labor in a Dallas suburb for as much as $15 an hour, is considering moving to help Houston rebuild after Hurricane Harvey. There’s just one caveat.
“If I’m seeing police are picking up a lot of people or there are a lot of immigration raids, I’d leave for another state,” said Zamudio, 35, an undocumented immigrant who left behind his wife and three children in the Mexican city of Celaya about 15 months ago.