Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace operations are creating significant operational and economic challenges for businesses across several major United States industries. Sectors reliant on immigrant labor, including agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and hospitality, face sudden workforce shortages and disrupted supply chains following enforcement actions. Industry representatives and employers report severe difficulties in recruiting replacement labor, resulting in reduced productivity, delayed projects, and broader economic strain on local communities dependent on these commercial operations.
- Enforcement operations have contributed to immediate labor shortages across agriculture, construction, food processing, and hospitality sectors.
- Targeted businesses report operational delays, lost contracts, and reduced production capacity following the loss of workers.
- Employers struggle to fill labor-intensive vacancies, even when offering higher wages to prospective domestic applicants.
- Local economies experience secondary effects, such as declines in retail spending and reduced commercial activity in affected areas.
- Industry associations continue to call for expanded guest worker programs and stable legal pathways to address workforce demands.
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ICE Arrests Are Pushing Immigrant Families Deeper Into Poverty: https://bloom.bg/3TYdiSn
No one should agree with the recent heavy handed approach of ICE. The ease of illegal immigration has gone on for so long most people don’t remember any other way. I was a residential contractor in the early 1980’s. In 1985 during the Reagan administration me and other small business received letters from the Federal govt. explaining how to register and get SS number for any undocumented workers we might have. This backfired horribly. Immigrants flooded across the border illegally like never before. Contractors like me were priced out of the trades by 1990. The prices being paid were cut in half. The only contractors who survived were the ones who hired undocumented workers, who were taken advantage of and were payed well below minimum wage. The savings were not passed on to the consumer they were pocketed by the general contractors and home builders. Meanwhile honest American citizens left the trades not because we didn’t want to do that kind of work. We didn’t want to do it for half the money. We couldn’t afford to do it for half the money. Same thing happened in the custodial business at the same time. In 1982 Los Angeles you could clean buildings for $10-$12 an hour by 1988 $5-$6 per hour. Don’t blame the immigrants. Greed of American business put Americans out of work. Same with manufacturing going over seas. The rust belt of the Great Lakes. Over and over. Why does a country of 300 million people have to import so many workers? The fact that we as a country can’t fill the jobs and support our own economy tells a sad story of loss. Loss of work.
Proud to have voted for this!
Have you done a show on how illegal immigrants hurt the economy? I've worked jobs that were over 50% illegal immigrants. DHS came through and Americans got jobs. They can go! 👋🏿
Look… these people aren’t supposed to be here! What don’t you people understand about that?? Hire American citizens and increase the salary until US Citizens are willing to do those jobs! Stop exploiting cheap illegal workers! Get with the law and the program so we can fix our country.
8:01 😅😅 the people in front of the camera never address the people in the comment section LOL
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If they are here illegally they need to go
And how much Obama and Biden era ICE caused damage to the economy?
They deported even more people.
A lot of Americans cannot find jobs because of the illegals. They pay the illegal’s peanuts and treat them like slaves.
Reading the comments I sense that Woke 2.0 is the nation waking up to the lies of the propagandists at Bloomberg.
Alaska supports ICE and even ICEland
You know we have the 2nd Ammendment for things like these?
AMERICA : BUILD AN ECONOMY THAT DEPENDS ON SLVE LABOUR
ALSO AMERICA : DEPORT THE SLAVES.
Latinos 4 Trump got what they wanted
Maximizing the economy is not the end all be all. There is culture, unity, patriotism, common language, values, and many other factors the Americans need to think about and determine how they would like to navigate their future.
Less people there are the easier it is to gain control. This is just the start
This is such an American video.
My Mechanic, Lawn Care and Cleaning crew ALL Deported… ZERO had criminal records…All had born in America kids….
Its very easy for people to blame illegal immigration for all their problems and to pretend to fix it through mass deportations but these deportations never solve anything in the long term. These people are here illegally often because the legal pathway to citizenship is littered with restrictions and barriers that lengthen the process and as a result many see illegally crossing over as a more viable option than the legal pathway. If you simply deport these people they will just come right back the same way they came in without any changes to the system. If we were able to somehow fend of the majority of immigration from ever entering our country through illegal immigration it wouldn't solve any of the problems that these deportations were promised to fix. It wont help you get a job, it wont solve violent crime, and it definitely wont help the economy. Blaming immigration for all our problems is easy now but it wont be when these raids don't end up doing anything helpful. It only distracts us from the real solutions.
why would your customers run, if they have nothing to hide… i dont run when i see any law enforcement coming… weird, funny how that works. If you break the law… you get arrested… being at work isn't a shield…
ICE is hurting businesses, but we could've spent less on ICE if we stopped the people from coming in period. It's much cheaper to do it at the points of entry than trying to find a needle in an ocean.
I am so torn. On the one hand illegal immigrants broke the law and we are nothing but a country of laws (or so I thought before Trump came to power). On the other hand we don't have logical and workable immigration laws to supply the knowledge and labor the economy needs and we refuse to make any changes. A lot of these people are against immigration because of nationalist and racial animus.
Easy solution. Hire people authorized to work in the US.
Poor criminals
Cool
carolina ICE
I boted for this! Trump 2028 and 2032
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What’s “doxing”?
Sadly, ICE has been too restrained and tame😮💨
Hopefully we can actually see them ramp it up to moderate levels soon.
If those immigrants have such a vital role within the economic framework, why didn't they apply for lawful entrance into the U.S.? Why not take the legal high road to naturalization? Also, that 'volunteer' trying to doxx ICE officers while whining about her own fears of being doxxed is the HEIGHT of hypocrisy.
are we saying that in order for shops to keep open, US shall let the non-documenteds stay? So what is happening? Non-documenteds are allowed to stay to keep the shops open?
Why are they running if they are legal?
'unexpected consequences?' what do you mean. This is exactly what happens.
Classic bait and switch on the part of the grifter in chief.
This the same Bloomberg that was cheerleading for Mandated lockdowns a few years back during the clamdemic – that’ didn’t adversely effect the economy at all 🙄
Wait… a Honduran restaurant on the east coast is being affected?!??! We need to open the borders, think of all the quinciera bakeries that could have less profit, end the madness!
Mass deportation is economic suic1d3.
Well they voted for trump and now they are surprised what do you expect voting for a lunatic
this vid does not talk about the effects technology is having on the US