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Houston's sudden labor crisis tests the politics of immigration

Downtown Houston is seen in rain and clouds on Sunday. Rising water from Hurricane Harvey pushed thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford
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Bloomberg · Margaret Newkirk, Thomas Black, Prashant Gopal

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…

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