What is your response to that statement that, yes, this is temporary, it's run a long time, but it was always going to end at some point?

Yeah, I mean, it is temporary and it is supposed to end at some point.

But in the past, there has to have been some type of show from the government, from our government, that the conditions in the home country have improved.

And every objective measurable about Haiti indicates that the conditions have worsened.

So as you indicated in your intro, it was designated back in 2010 after an earthquake.

Well, it was redesignated a couple of years ago because of the political unrest and the fact that gangs run certain areas of Haiti with impunity.

So there's been no showing that it's gotten better.

Is that something you're hearing from your clients as well?

Is that plausible?

Oh, absolutely.

And I can tell you this is something that's very common because the immigration courts, especially now, are changing dates very, very frequently.

And they do so sometimes with little or no notice.

The original date that she got was February of 2025 for her first hearing.

Then when she prepared her asylum application, the family went online with the help of what we call an etario.

They went online and they saw that her final date wasn't until 2028.

What do you make of prejudice driving that argument? What do you make of that?

Are, are there any particular bottlenecks that are still having the biggest impact on pharma facility timelines today?

So the long lead equipment is, is certainly timeframes, um, post-COVID.

I don't wanna blame it, but it's certainly, ever since then, it's kind of reset the timeframe and the expectations.

Um, switch gears are, my goodness, uh, somewhere between forty and sixty weeks lead times now where, um, uh, p-people are potentially, uh, putting in temporary switchboards and panels to make sure things are working correctly so that they don't lose time when, when delivery comes.

Um, in the sense of, um, trying to tie in here maybe perhaps, uh, even though there's work in North America, we're still exposed to the global supply chains, you know.

Like Steve mentioned before, the tariffs.

So with structural steel, there's a lot of steel that is bought out of Canada.

It's, uh, kind of ones and twosie kinda thing.

You know, if you can manufacture that here in the U.S., it gets to Mark's point that you're, you know, first of all, more secure, but also, you know, from a cost standpoint, you know, much more competitive in the marketplace, let's say.

Yes, yes.

And these projects, they're often tied to rate of returns, whatever pipeline bets they have to make, long-term investment strategies because of the patent issues that Steve had just mentioned.

So I think when you combine that with the size of the programs where decisions have to happen quickly, They become slower.

The decisions aren't waiting for everything to really be at a defined level that they normally would for the smaller projects where they can wrap their arms around everything.

There are strategies in place where they're taking more rough order magnitudes in certain areas of these megaprojects.

where that risk increases, it creates a different level that they're used to.

We're not as diligent as we should be in dealing with that kind of environment.

Oh.

So, uh, but yeah, you know, those things were made out of like melamine and wood and, you know, you know, pl- things that were made out of plastic, and we made it all.

Um, and then we also made slot machines.

Well, for the Indian casino market.

That was a great learning experience as well.

That same recruiter, and I can say this now, but the same recruiter that recruited me for that job said, "Hey, I've got a medical device company that needs a CNC liaison."For their engineering group.

So basically they had, about the time they had about 25 or 30 engineers from Purdue and Georgia Tech, these really smart kids is what I call them, and they had some sprinkled in experience.

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