America's construction industry is running out of people to actually build things, thanks to convicted felon Donald Trump's "law and order" obsession with arresting the same workers who keep the country's infrastructure from collapsing. Immigration crackdowns have turned job sites into ghost towns, checkpoints into daily hazards, and skilled Latino crews into targets. Even U.S. citizens are getting detained because their last name sounds inconvenient.

For years, the construction industry — in which on average one in three workers is foreign-born — has struggled with a yawning labor shortage that President Trump's immigration crackdown is making worse, industry officials warn. In D.C., for example, that has meant Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) checkpoints that have swept up Lati

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