US EditionOur Firm Relies on Immigrant Labor. Here’s What We’d Lose Without It.
- The Trump administration intensified ICE raids earlier this month, arresting and deporting undocumented immigrant workers across several states, including California and New Mexico.
- This escalation followed efforts to meet a daily arrest target of 3,000, despite warnings that such raids risk severe economic disruption and widespread workforce shortages.
- Industry leaders emphasize that undocumented immigrants make up about 8% of California's workforce, contribute nearly 5% of the state's GDP directly, and nearly 9% when including indirect impacts.
- Steve Bannon stated that deportations would negatively affect GDP, and CEO Gary Rohwer affirmed immigrant workers are vital to business, while a report warns removing undocumented workers could cause up to a $275 billion economic loss in California.
- These developments suggest that ongoing immigration enforcement challenges threaten key sectors like agriculture and construction, and President Trump is weighing protective measures for certain farmworkers amid growing criticism.
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ICE Update: Abandoned Food Vendor Carts Popping Up All Over * 100PercentFedUp.com * by M Winger
This is a sad story, brace yourself. And the legacy media is also framing this story as sad, but for a different reason. The real reason it’s a sad story is that now restaurants and fast food joints like In-N-Out will get more customers and might get overwhelmed. Bosses will start saying: “Thought you could only work 4 days this week? Sorry, our business is now booming so you’re going to have to work 5 days now. We can now also afford to give yo…
ICE: Targeting essential workers
Well, that didn't last long, said William Kristol in The Bulwark. Just days after President Trump declared an "immigration-enforcement truce"— by calling on ICE not to seize undocumented migrants employed by "our great farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business"—his administration told ICE agents to "disregard all that." In an email outlining the "about-face on the about-face," Homeland Security official Tricia McLaughlin told staffers…
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