With Trump's mass deportations, who will rebuild our disaster-stricken cities?

Trump 's immigration crackdown could cause chaos for communities trying to rebuild after devastating wildfires and floods.

Republican and Democratic voters across the US are reeling from climate-fueled disasters, with thousands of homes and businesses destroyed and damaged by the ongoing fires in Los Angeles , as well as major hurricanes in Florida , Texas , North Carolina , and Georgia last year .

Resilience Force: Immigrants are indispensable to fire, flood, and hurricane recovery in the US .

Trump administration issues new quotas to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ramp up raids and arrests.

Immigrant workers have a tenuous foothold in America , says author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America .

The resilience workforce has grown massively since Katrina flattened New Orleans in 2005 , after which the city was rebuilt by mostly undocumented Latino workers.