🛑 Texas Builder Fences Off His Job Sites to Keep ICE Away From His Workers 🛑 A construction company owner in South Texas's Rio Grande Valley is putting up fences around his job sites so ICE agents can't get to his workers. This is what happens when Trump's federal government refuses to indict owners for hiring illegal aliens. Benny Melendez owns BM3 Construction and runs government relations for the South Texas Builders Association. He told the Wall Street Journal the fence has nothing to do with theft: "I'm not afraid that someone's going to steal my materials, no. I'm afraid that ICE agents are going to steal my workers." He's not alone. NBC News found other Valley builders using padlocked gates, codes changed weekly and hired security. Builders say agents told them that if the public can't get onto a private site, agents won't either. More than 9,000 people have been arrested in ICE operations across the Valley in recent months, according to the Observer. Melendez says homes that used to take about four months now take eight or nine. The law is already on the books. Under 8 U.S.C. 1324a, it's illegal to knowingly hire, or keep employing, an alien who isn't authorized to work. Employers face fines, and a pattern or practice of it brings criminal charges. Border czar Tom Homan says his plan to go after employers who hire illegal aliens has cleared Homeland Security Investigations and is waiting on DHS sign-off. Waiting isn't enforcement. Unless @POTUS directs DHS and the DOJ to indict these business owners, it seems to me they don't want mass deportations. Should employers who hire illegal aliens face prison time?