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Census Bureau data reveals U.S. labor force has lost over 1.2 million immigrants

Summary by Fast Company
It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley.She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenager.“The worry is they’ll pull you over when you’re driving and ask for your papers,” said Lidia, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition that only her first name be used because of…

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The Pew Research Center analyzed census data and found that the number of immigrant workers decreased by more than a million between January and the end of July. The report does not link the decrease with immigration control operations, but some experts claim that the moment is not casual. Several people commented to Telemundo 52 that fewer workers have been seen since recent migration operations.

What is the picture of the U.S. migrant labor force with Trump? Official estimates show that, between January and June, following Donald Trump’s return to the White House in his second non-consecutive term, at least 1.2 million migrants have disappeared from the U.S. labor force. This decline, the first in decades, adds to the cuts proposed by the Republican leader’s government to the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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