Nebraska companies, strapped for workers, face mild concern to abject terror as immigration crackdown begins [Video]

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) – Roman Dimaksyan often gets phone calls from people looking for work. It hurts his construction company, and bothers him, when he has to turn them down.

The business owner and Russian speaker says that other Russian-speaking immigrants looking for work tend to find him and his Omaha business, RabFak Construction, which already employs mostly immigrants. But Dimaksyan says he’s often unable to hire many of the people calling, because they don’t yet have legal authorization to work in the United States.

He could use the help. RabFak is missing out on larger, longer-term projects because he simply doesn’t have enough workers, he said.

“That really hurts me, and that’s why I’m trying to find out how we can bring more people here,” Dimaksyan said. “We know that talent has meaning, not anything else, talent. … All this talk about anything else is just too much political (talk).”

Dimaksyan …