1.2M immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
Tomato season and Lidia California harvests on farms in Central Valley.
He’s worried too. Attention US immigration control and application He could raise his life after more than 23 years after passing the US-Mexico border as a young man.
Lidia, who spoke to Associated Press on condition that only the first name is used because of the fear of deportation, said, “The concern is that they will want to drive and ask for your paper.” “We need to work. We need to feed our families and pay our rent.”
Passing ceremonies and other activities celebrating the contributions of the US workers are held on Monday. WORKER DAY HOLIDAYExperts say that President Donald Trump’s abrasive migration policies are affected The country’s labor force.
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January to the end of July. Pre -Census Bureau data analyzed by Pew Research Center. It includes legal residents in the country illegally.
According to Pew Senior Researcher Stephanie Kramer, immigrants make up almost 20% of the US labor force, and the data shows that 45% of workers in agriculture, fishing and forestry are immigrants. Authorized, approximately 30% of all construction workers are immigrants and 24% of the service workers are immigrants, he added.
The loss of immigrant workers comes because the nation’s first decline in the total immigrant population of the nation after the number of people in the United States has reached the highest level of all time in 2023.
Kramer, “since January since the decline we have seen, how to follow other opportunities or deportation, lifting, insufficient reporting or other technical problems are not clear from voluntary attempts to avoid,” he said. “However, we do not believe that the preliminary figures that show clear negative migration are so far that the decline is not real.”
Embers Campaign on a promise Millions of immigrants working in the United States to deport illegal deportation. He said he focused on his deportation efforts on “dangerous criminals”, but Most people detained by ice No criminal conviction. At the same time, the number of illegal border crossings fell under the policies.
Pia Orrenus, a labor economist at Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, said immigrants normally add at least 50% of business growth in the USA
“The flock we can say along the border has essentially stopped and we have received millions and millions of immigrants in the last four years,” he said. “This had a great impact on the ability to create business.”
‘The crops went to waste’
McALLEN, just opposite the Mexican border in Texas, Egyptian and cotton fields are ready for harvesting. Elizabeth Rodriguez is concerned that there will be no sufficient workers for jinn and other machines after the fields are cleaned.
Rodriguez, Director of Farm Worker of the Ministry of National Farmer, said that the actions of immigration in farms, businesses and construction sites have stopped everything.
“In May, watermelon and melon was delayed during the summit of our season. Too many products went wasted,” he said.
California, northwest of Los Angeles, manages Nedengi, avocado and coffee -growing family business on Eight Farm and 800 acres (323 hectares) at Ventura County, Ventura County.
Most of the men and women working in farms are daily workers provided by the contractor. Earlier this year, there were days when the crews would be smaller. Tate hesitates this accusation in immigration policies. But fear Ice raids It spread rapidly.
Duzine Regional Farmers Arrested At the end of this spring.
Tate said, “People were being removed from the side of the road, launda,” Tate said.
Farmer Lidia, who spoke with AP through a interpreter, said that his greatest fear was sent back to Mexico. Now 36 is married to three school -age children born here.
Orum I don’t know if I can bring my kids, L Lidia said. “I am also very worried that I will have to start from scratch. My whole life is in the United States.”
From construction to health services
Rodriguez, McALLEN and the surrounding construction sites, “completely died,” he said.
“We have a great workforce that has not been documented,” he said. “We have seen that ice is especially aiming for construction sites and trying to target mechanical and repair workshops.”
According to a general contractor associated with government employment data, the number of construction works has fallen in about half of the US metropolitan areas. The largest 7,200 job loss was in Riverside-San Bernardino-onario, California. The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale region lost 6,200 jobs.
Ken Simonson, the chief economist of the association, said, “Construction employment has stopped or withdrawn in many areas for various reasons or withdrawn.” “However, the contractors reported that more people will hire more people if they can find more qualified and willing workers and if they do not disrupt the labor force materials of more migration.”
Kramer warns the potential impact on health services with Pew. He says that immigrants make up about 43% of home health aids.
The International Union of Service Employees represents approximately 2 million workers in health services, public sector and real estate services. Local President Arnulfo de la Cruz said that the estimated half of the long -term care workers, who are members of the Seıu 2015 in California, is immigrant.
“What will happen when millions of Americans no longer find a home care provider?” De la Cruz said. “What happens when immigrants are not on the field to choose our crops? Who goes to our hospitals and care homes?”
