The South Texas Builders Association convened a community meeting in November 2025 to address the economic fallout of workplace immigration raids on local contractors

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Tutor Intelligence markets industrial robot labor to commercial customers at an operational rate of 16 dollars per hour

In June 2026, Congress passed the Secure America Act, providing 70 billion dollars in additional funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol

South Texas Builders Association leaders contacted Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz and Democratic Representatives Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar regarding immigration enforcement on worksites

In early 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids began targeting construction job sites in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas

A major concrete supplier in South Texas laid off more than 100 workers and subsequently filed for bankruptcy amid construction industry disruptions

Mario Guerrero serves as the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, an organization representing 159 construction and real estate businesses

Lumber and cement suppliers in the Rio Grande Valley experienced declining sales and contract cancellations as home construction slowed

In 1997, Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein organized an interdisciplinary conference in Pittsburgh connecting economists with cognitive neuroscientists

Julio Carranza serves as the vice president of the South Texas Builders Association

Economists evaluate policies regarding existential risks by assigning an economic value to human lives and calculating risk probabilities

During a meeting in Washington, D.C., an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told the South Texas Builders Association board that un-enclosed construction sites are not considered private property

In July 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 200 individuals in the Rio Grande Valley in a single day

Robert Aumann won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for proving foundational theorems in game theory

Completeness of preferences in classical economics requires an individual to be able to rank every possible good and bundle of goods

Utility maximization models in classical economics assume economic agents can evaluate trade-offs between sensually incommensurable goods

In July 2026, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed framer Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas

John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published foundational work in applied mathematics that advanced game theory

The folk theorem in game theory shows that cooperative equilibria can be sustained in repeated interactions that are mathematically impossible in one-shot games

Construction contractors in the Rio Grande Valley installed security fences, locked gates, and solar-powered cameras around job sites to protect crews from immigration raids

Standard microeconomic models of competitive markets assume price-taking behavior where individual firms do not strategically account for competitor reactions