Migrant deportations are already beginning to affect U.S. companies

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The deportations ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump are causing fear in immigrant communities, but also “anxiety and uncertainty” among businessmen who need that labor force and who denounced Monday that they are already seeing a drop in production. teleSUR

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00:00We begin with the news, and we do so in the States.

00:03Mass deportations of migrants have begun to affect business activity in the country.

00:07According to data from the U.S. Business Immigration Coalition, in less than four days of persecution,

00:13the slowdown in business has already reached 50 percent.

00:17Its director, Rebecca Shee, said business leaders are beginning to express concern and

00:21unease that far from President Donald Trump's statements that violent individuals and drug

00:26cartel members are being targeted, essential workers without police records have also

00:31been deported, while some do not come to work for fear of deportation.

00:36She also said that migrant workers make up 25 to 50 percent of essential industries in

00:40the U.S. and contribute more than $80 billion in taxes each year.

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