Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market

Schwartzreport · 11 months ago · 77 views

PAUL WISEMAN and GISELA SALOMON,  Reporters  -  Stephan: Dictator Trump's ignorance and nastiness, expressed daily in his ongoing fascist Republican Party coup, is severely impacting the U.S. labor market and the wellbeing of millions, including you and what you have to pay for groceries, clothes, and anything else made overseas, as this article describes. Did you think this moron even knows that, according to a 2025 report, immigrants or their children founded 46.2% of Fortune 500 companies? This includes 109 companies founded by immigrants and 122 founded by the children of immigrants. This share has been consistently high in recent years, with similar figures for 2024 (46%) and 2023 (44.8%). How many millions of Americans work for these immigrant-founded corporations? Elon Musk is a White, racist South African immigrant. Jackie Contel, an advanced care partner, originally from Sierra Leone, helps Donald Goodness, 92, put on fresh socks in his apartment on Alexandria, Virginia. Credit: Eric Lee / AP Maria worked cleaning schools in Florida for $13 an hour. Every two weeks, she’d get a $900 paycheck from her employer, a contractor. Not much — but enough to cover rent in the house that she and her 11-year-old son share with five families, plus electricity, a cellphone and groceries. In August, it all ended. When she showed up at the job one morning, her boss told her that she couldn’t work there anymore. The Trump administration had terminated President Joe Biden’s humanitarian parole program, which provided legal work permits for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans as well as Nicaraguans like Maria. “I feel desperate,’’ said Maria, 48, who requested anonymity to talk about her ordeal because she fears being detained and deported. “I don’t have any money to buy anything. I have $5 in my account. I’m left with nothing.’’ President Donald Trump’s [...]