Immigration crackdown causing ‘Trump slump’ in Las Vegas tourism, unions say | Las Vegas

The migration policies of the Trump administration, according to the workers and the largest union in the state of Nevada, affect workers and directly directly to Las Vegas, a decrease in tourism, including international tourists.

Las Vegas’s visitors generally fell 11.3 % In June 2025, compared to the same month last year. According to Las Vegas Congress and visitor authority, international visitors to one of the largest touristic places in the world fallen 13% in June.

Norma Torres, a cleaner in the Gulf of Mandalay for eight years, and Norma Torres, a member of the kitchen union working in the hospitality industry since the age of 18, said, “Many departments have been dismissed too much.” “In the cleaning department, the calls in the call are almost invited to work.”

Canada Nevada’s largest International market. Flair Airlines, a Canadian airline company 55 % Fall to passengers compared to last year. Air Canada 13.2 % From May to June this year, passengers are lower than Las Vegas and last year.

Trump Management Officials reported Migration and Customs Protection (ICE) pushed 3,000 people a day as part of the anti -immigration agendas of the agents. Later, they denied that these quotas existed. However, they continued to cancel their immigration situations, Delayed action for childhood arrival, and other human migration programs.

Kitchen workers Union Local 226 Secretary Treasurer Ted Pappageeorge said, “If you say that you are not welcome to the rest of the world, they will listen. Our members say that they are quite tense and so they call Trump collapse,” he said.

However, the ice raids, trade partners trade wars and increasing tariffs are afraid that potential visitors will finance.

“We will go anywhere else.

The Union said that its members came from 178 different countries and spoke 40 different languages. The union represents 60,000 workers in Las Vegas and Reno and 45% of its members are immigrants.

Almost quarter (24 %) Migrants from Nevada’s labor force and Nevada’s leisure and hospitality industry is an even higher share of immigrants. Immigrants add an annual estimated $ 20.2 billion to the Nevada economy.

Born in Mexico, Norma Torres has postponed actions for immigration status of childhood arrival (DCA), a policy that came into force in 2012 for immigrant individuals who are currently brought to the USA as a child.

Torres said he was worried about how the Trump administration would affect the status of immigration.

Torres said, um I lived before my fear before DACA. Im I can drive on the street, they can pull me. I can leave my daughters, they were born here and just scare me.

Nerry Martinez, who has been a Caesar Palace in Las Vegas and 226 local members of the Kitchen Workers Union for 10 years, has been concerned about cancel the TPS for El Salvador from the Trump administration and TPS for thousands of immigrants from Trump administration under the temporary protected status from El Salvador for decades.

“This would be destructive not only for me, but for thousands of families, Martinez said. “In this place, 25 years later, have I built me from my children, my wife, my life?

Las Vegas, working with others from all over the world, and to interact with tourists from abroad and throughout the United States, but now emphasized what will happen to the status of immigration.

Uz We work with families who love this country. We don’t want privilege, just as we have done for decades, we are allowed to stay legally. Our families American, I feel a part of this nation. TPS (temporary protected status) was tearing my life. I can’t spend a nice night, I wake up the next day.

TED PAPAGEORGE remarkable For 20 years, the Culinary Union has guaranteed that any worker who has abolished or has expired in his contracts or has expired in his contracts and has a support mechanism in which he argued that he could legally be provided to all workers until he solved his status.

Papageorge said, “The idea that you bring sailors and arrest dishwashers or landscapes, in fact, people who contributed to the society, go to our churches, go to our schools and go to our schools, neighbors, crazy. This is just what happened here.

Nevada Governor did not respond to more than one comment.