Business leaders predict dire consequences if ICE purges immigrant workforce
President Donald Trump's decision to allow ICE to arrest illegal immigrant workers has been met with dire warnings of economic decline if millions are targeted.
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“… The national United Farm Workers union told the
Washington Examiner that immigrant workers are the backbone of American farms and that the “agricultural industry would collapse without” them.
Emily Williams Knight, CEO of the
Texas Restaurant Association, called the loss of immigrant workers in her industry a “very serious issue” that is already having a “direct impact” on the state’s labor force.
“Restaurants are not a nice to have, they are part of a critical feeding infrastructure,” Knight
said in a virtual press conference Wednesday. “There is a massive economic impact when people are not coming to work, they’re not spending in their communities and restaurants aren’t generating the revenue that’s required for investment back to the community.”
But others, including Trump administration officials and associates, have promised better wages for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants if illegal immigrants are deported.…
ICE has been pushed by White House Deputy chief of staff
Stephen Miller to round up 3,000 illegal immigrants daily, nearly double the number of arrests as of late May. Since most large cities will not turn over illegal immigrants in jails on criminal charges to ICE, the federal agency has resorted to trying to boost arrest numbers by going after dozens to hundreds of immigrants at job sites rather than individual criminals at large….”
