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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,010 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:26 PM Monday

1.2M immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

It's tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California's Central Valley.

She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration Control and 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 her fears of deportation. “We need to work. We need to feed our families and pay our rent.”

As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/1-2m-immigrants-gone-us-031148921.html

Your hamberders are going to cost you a lot more Donny.

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1.2M immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
The impact of this precipitous action by the Trump government is just starting to be felt. patphil Monday #1
Also our tomatoes... thecrow Monday #2

patphil

(8,204 posts)
1. The impact of this precipitous action by the Trump government is just starting to be felt.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:31 PM
Monday

Next year is going to be grim.

thecrow

(5,524 posts)
2. Also our tomatoes...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:34 PM
Monday

This is a sad story.
Maybe all the folks being displaced by AI
can learn to pick tomatoes ?
That would be sad, too.

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