Trump's Reversal On ICE Raids Damaging Economy

 

The unhinged Malignant Fascist's decision to resume going after immigrants in the agricultural, food service and other sectors -- after pausing raids by the thuggish ICE -- is having damaging impacts on the ability of businesses to manage from one day to the next, not to mention the human toll on the workers and their families. Workers are staying away from their work frightened that if they show up to work, they will be arrested by the brutal, masked agents. From the Associated Press:

"Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job.

“There was finally a sense of calm,’’ said Rebecca Shi, CEO of the American Business Immigration Coalition.

That respite didn’t last long."

The chaotic MF had relented temporarily to the business community that told him their businesses would collapse without immigrant labor. Immigrants comprise from 24% to 38% of workers in the food service, farming, fishing, meat packing and forestry sectors, working in jobs that Americans don't want to do, especially in this current low unemployment economy. Some reactions from those affected by the MF's on-again-off-again policy:

"Jennie Murray, CEO of the advocacy group National Immigration Forum, said some immigrant parents worry that their workplaces will be raided and they’ll be hauled off by ICE while their kids are in school. They ask themselves, she said: 'Do I show up and then my second-grader gets off the school bus and doesn’t have a parent to raise them? Maybe I shouldn’t show up for work.' [snip]

'It really is clear to me that the people pushing for these raids that target farms and feed yards and dairies have no idea how farms operate,' Matt Teagarden, CEO of the Kansas Livestock Association, said Tuesday during a virtual press conference. [snip]

'The reality is, a significant portion of our industry relies on immigrant labor — skilled, hardworking people who’ve been part of our workforce for years. When there are sudden crackdowns or raids, it slows timelines, drives up costs, and makes it harder to plan ahead,' says Patrick Murphy, chief investment officer at the Florida building firm Coastal Construction and a former Democratic member of Congress. 'We’re not sure from one month to the next what the rules are going to be or how they’ll be enforced. That uncertainty makes it really hard to operate a forward-looking business.'”

The MF's sinister and mentally disturbed immigration chief, Stephen Miller, has demanded that ICE detain 3,000 immigrants per day, regardless of the human impact and economic losses. His cruel dictates will backfire eventually, but not before lives are uprooted and damaged in the name of bigotry. 

(photo: Immigrants pick vegetables in California. Istock.com)