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pat_k

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5. Deportations are helping to crash employment in construction.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:29 PM
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Yank immigrants out of the mix and the jobs that rely on those workers disappear.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-by-industry-monthly-changes.htm

And check out private education and healthcare. And leisure and hospitality.

And, of course, this is a "non-farm" report so agriculture is excluded, so the losses there due to deportations aren't captured.

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