President Donald Trump’s decision not to protect illegal immigrant workers from arrest and deportation is being met with dire warnings from small businesses and large corporations concerned for economic decline if millions of the workforce are targeted.
Groups that represent workers in hospitality, restaurant, and agriculture industries have not only called this past week for the Trump administration to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from arresting workers without legal status, but they have gone on to predict economic downfall that would ensue nationwide if the country is purged of that workforce.
The national United Farm Workers union told the Washington Examiner that immigrant workers are the backbone of American farms and that the “agricultural industry would collapse without” them.
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