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.
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Immigration crackdown leaves US home health workforce at risk
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... The Trump administration's immigration crackdown is having an unexpected impact -- not at the southern border, but inside nursing homes across the United States.
Facilities nationwide are facing staff shortages, with some forced to close entire wings, leaving elderly residents in limbo.
Foreign-born caregivers make up 30% of the nursing home housekeeping and maintenance workforce, according to data from LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit providers of aging services. That's compared to 19% of the overall workforce, according to Labor Department data.
More than 40% of home health aides in the U.S. last year were foreign-born, according to unpublished Labor Department data obtained by Axios. ...
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As Trump pledges mass deportation, he's creating more undocumented people
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... More than 1 million people who were granted legal entry to the country under different programs are now considered here illegally by the Trump administration.
Florndjie Camey, 31, had gone from a bleak future in Haiti to hope for a new life; she had landed a cashier's job in her new city of Miami after coming to the country legally with a sponsor. Then, President Donald Trump declared that she and more than 1 million other people did not have legal permission to stay in the country.
Trump, seeking to go down in history as the president who carried out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, deemed that the Biden administration program that allowed Camey and hundreds of thousands of others to legally enter the U.S was actually illegal.
Trump has pledged to clear the country of people who are illegally here, but the new criteria is expected to significantly expand the pool of undocumented immigrants. ...
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