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Loss of Foreign Workers Begins to Bite U.S. Economy
July 8, 2025 at 7:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/08/loss-of-foreign-workers-begins-to-bite-u-s-economy/
President Donald Trumps crackdown on immigration is starting to ripple across the U.S. economy, Politico reports.
From small farms in California, to meat packing facilities in Nebraska to corporate giants like Disney, businesses are scrambling to replace workers after recent administration actions have taken immigrants, both legal and illegal, out of the labor force, including several hundred thousand people who had been given temporary work permits under President Joe Biden.
bluedigger
(17,401 posts)Or so my economic studies led me to believe...
LymphocyteLover
(9,382 posts)at least most of them. Farmwork, landscaping, restaurant help, housekeeping doesn't pay that much
bluedigger
(17,401 posts)I guess those jobs will just fill themselves then. Problem solved.
LymphocyteLover
(9,382 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,233 posts)Two-thirds of adults who use Medicaid are workers, with 64% of them working full time. Most of those remaining are caregivers, disabled or ill, or students, all of which are qualifying exemptions. The idea that millions of immigrants can be replaced by Medicaid recipients is just stupid beyond belief. Are poor women forced to have more babies now expected to strap a baby to their back while harvesting vegetables? Or maybe people in wheelchairs can just roll around and pick lettuce. This Republican hatred of migrants and our own poor has gotten out of bounds with common sense tossed in the trash.
Gimpyknee
(1,025 posts)And dont forget those millions of fat and lazy 10, 11, and 12 year old kids.
peggysue2
(12,389 posts)Was positively stunned by the ignorance and lack of empathy.
The mindset is reminiscent of the English during the Great Hunger in Ireland. The English were convinced that all Irish were lazy liars living on the dole. While exporting most of the Ireland's agriculture products, the economic solution was to make everyone work for pitiful handouts. Subsequently, they had skeleton-like workforces building roads-to-nowhere. Thousands upon thousands died.
The English, too, thought of themselves as 'good' Christians.
LymphocyteLover
(9,382 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,382 posts)this administration is such a bunch of morons
Wounded Bear
(63,857 posts)Add a Repub resistance to increasing wages at all and you get stagflation. Higher prices, stagnant wages.
Libertarian nirvana.
Callie1979
(1,153 posts)We should have already seen higher prices & slumping sales. We haven't. If we dont see it by fall, I'm not sure WHAT will happen
LymphocyteLover
(9,382 posts)But sooner or later they have to go up, if the tariffs continue.
There are a lot of ways the economy can go bad.. like the attack on farmworkers should impact the price of food. The cuts to govt services and jobs, federal debt is out of control, the dollar is weakening, etc
live love laugh
(16,204 posts)bronxiteforever
(11,106 posts)for the industry and all of the tax revenue with that!
dalton99a
(92,161 posts)No problemo
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)republianmushroom
(22,123 posts)The educating of America is now in progress.
ananda
(34,453 posts)you can't see anything else... like consequences,
for example.
wolfie001
(7,101 posts)The WH press corpse is so embarrassing. Needs to be buried and forgotten. We are truly f6cked as a nation. Too many undereducated and stupid/racist voters. How can that be fixed?