The application of immigration to the hard line of the Trump administration is heading the pressure of business owners who may lose huge parts of their workforce if President Donald Trump keeps his campaign promise to expel millions of immigrants. The repression of the deportation could even be impossible to achieve without undermining the American economy.
A series of high-level raids earlier this month has cooled the agriculture sector, employees now terrified to present themselves at work, leaving the cows impregnated and the crops were smashed, Bloomberg reported. Trump quoted complaints from farmers and hoteliers according to which ice raids “took very good long -standing workers from them, these jobs being almost impossible to replace”, according to a social article of truth which presumed a brief break in the application of these industries.
The reprieve lasted barely a day, however, Trump promising to double the immigration raids, emphasizing the states and sites controlled by Democrat. In a social post, Trump decreed ice officers “to do everything in their power to achieve the very important objective of providing the biggest mass expulsion program in history”, including “Expansder[ing] Efforts to hold and expel illegal foreigners in the largest American cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, where millions and millions of illegal foreigners reside. The next day, an email left the ice to continue raids in food and agricultural companies.
The sudden and complete reversal highlights a fundamental schism within Trump’s party: the rich leaders of the hotel, hotel and agriculture and business owners complained to losing a reliable workforce. But Maga’s base and immigration rigids consider the most stringent immigration application as a basic promise of the Trump campaign. The conflict between the two factions takes place in real time while workers fear their jobs and their loved ones while business leaders – many of whom thought that the promised ice raids would focus on criminals and gang members rather than law -respecting workers – looked at their sources of smoke income.
“Fear is really the common thread,” said Emily Knight, president and chief executive officer of the Texas Restaurant Association, a commercial group that defends the catering industry in Texas, which employs 1.4 million workers. “Fear is not only the workforce that does not come, but customers remain at home and what is this economic reality.”
The pedestrian circulation of restaurants has dropped since the inauguration of Trump, with a particularly steep drop in the highly Mexican areas, according to the data that the tra share with Fortune.
“It is a ridiculous fantasy that you can somehow expel the immigrants who do the work of this country and not explode this economy,” said Ted Papageorge, head of the local culinary workers 226, who represents 60,000 hotels and Las Vegas hospital workers in hotels, restaurants and casinos.
The group represents very diverse membership with immigrants from around 170 countries. Papageorge noted that the changes in recent rapid firing policy, such as revoking the temporary protected status for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, quickly transformed “legal” workers into “illegal”.
The change affected “thousands of workers in the state of Nevada, hundreds on the [Las Vegas] Strip, “he said.” They had permission; were respectful of the laws, were going to work every day and fed this economy – they had their status revoke. »»
‘Guns pointed on the cows’
Immigrants, many without legal status, work throughout the food chain. A chain of 22 million in five food products – a chain of 22 million that extends from fields to packaging meat factories to restaurants and supermarkets – is an immigrant, according to the Migration Policy Institute and the National Restaurant Association. In some niches, such as dairy industry, more than half of the workforce 160,000 people abroad.
It was an ice raid recorded on a dairy of the New Mexico that would have changed the president’s mind.
A routine check on June 3 has intensified, and half of the farmer’s workforce was arrested and the ice forces “even entered salons with fiery weapons on the cows,” said this week in Beverly Idsinga, executive director of dairy producers in New Mexico. The dairy owner went from 50 employees to 24 employees overnight, she said. “He obtains high school students; he stops his agricultural operations,” said Idsinga.
In particular, following this raid and other high -level clashes, especially in an Italian popular restaurant in San Diego, the members of the Congress GOP raised concerns to Trump.
Representative David Valadao, who represents the California central valley, an agricultural power that produces 25% of the country’s crops and is known for its almonds, its peaches, its olive oil and its grapes, said that the administration should “give priority to the abolition of known criminals on people who work hard who have lived peacefully in the valley for years”.
“They must make it fall,” the president of House Agriculture, GT Thompson, Pennsylvania, Tarnsylvania, Targeting by the Food Administration of the Food Sector. “Let’s move on to criminals and give time to set up processes so that we do not disturb the food supply chain.”
Andy Harris, the Maryland Republican who presides over the very influential conservative House Freedom Caucus, told journalists on Tuesday that he had supported the expansion of legal visas to immigrant workers, in particular by creating a new category.
“With an unemployment rate of 4%, you will not find American workers for many of these tasks. You have not found them even when the unemployment rate was higher,” said Harris.
Harris was speaking at a press conference held by the American Business Immigration Coalition, which pushes Congress to create a new type of long -term work visa for immigrants.
This desire is contrary to the policies of Stephen Miller, the architect of the repression of Trump’s immigration, who was largely described as an ideological purist. According to the Wall Street Journal And Washington examinerAn impatient Miller has urged the senior ice officials to “do more” and, rather than targeting criminals, presenting themselves at Home Depot and 7-Eleven and bringing people together waiting for work. Miller almost doubled the administration’s arrest objective at 3,000 arrests per day.
Work is the point
For a considerable contingent of Trump’s base, getting rid of foreign work is precisely the point. “”Our post is that there should be no person sculpture, “said Mehlman, spokesperson for the Conservative Federation of the US Immigration Reform, which recommends restricting immigration. For the just, there is a simple solution to industries that say they do not attract domestic workers: increase remuneration.
“You can transform any job in this country into a job that an American will not simply do it by degrading wages and working conditions. We should not do it,” said Mehlman Fortune. “Even in low -qualifying jobs, there are a lot of people looking for work on wages that can support their families. We must hold the responsible employer. ”
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, also opposed the sculpture, displaying a survey on X indicating that the majority of respondents did not agree with the brief break of application and retweeting a farm praising its policy of hiring only of citizens. And the right commentator Matt Walsh posted: “Employers who knowingly count on the illegal work of immigrants should be in prison. Instead, we will go back from the application of immigration for their property? Hell no. We cannot tolerate this. ”
Asked for clarification on the policy of applying the administration, the Ministry of Internal Security Tricia McLaughlin said in a press release Fortune: “The president has been incredibly clear. There will be no safe space for industries that house violent criminals or deliberately try to undermine ice efforts.”
“The work work application remains the cornerstone of our efforts to protect public security, national security and economic stability.
What will employers do?
What most observers agreed is the following: reaching the declared objective of 3,000 immigration arrests per day is almost impossible without sweeping people whose only crime is to enter illegally into the United States
It remains to be seen the full impact of these scannings. A Nebraska meat packaging factory that has lost 76 employees during the largest state of work in the state of the state to date has since been flooded with applications for newly open posts, NBC reported. And the perspective of using a strong militarized force to stop low -level workers extinguishes a large part of the Americans, according to Papageorge. “When you bring the navies to stop the dishwashers and cooks and agricultural workers, it will create a backlash–not just in the industry but among the citizens,” he said.
Employers carry a large part of the responsibility of the “broken immigration system,” he added. “Employers must come to the table with the workers’ movement and the Democrats and the Republicans who represent these massive industries,” he said.
It is uncertain that this will happen – at least not in the way Maga envisages. The last time Maga clashed with supporters of Trump companies was on H-1B visas, which allow highly qualified immigrants to be hired in the United States-at the cost, according to criticism, to undermine the salaries of the Americans. Trump, after deciding the H-1B visas during the campaign, reassured himself by business in this fight.
