Immigration raids are hurting the U.S. economy

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The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of recession as ICE raids ordered by President Donald Trump decimate the workforce in the agriculture, construction and service sectors. From New York to Florida, several companies report 50-60% drops in revenue as immigrant workers who form the backbone of these sectors are detained or deported.  #EconomicCrisis #TrumpRaids #ImmigrantLabor #RecessionWarning #TeleSUREnglish  🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00Also in the United States, the immigration raids promoted by President Donald Trump

00:04are already beginning to be felt in that country's economy.

00:07From New York, our correspondent Henry Camelo tells us more.

00:15The manhunt that immigration raids have become in the United States

00:19are not only breaking thousands of immigrant families.

00:22They are also taking away a large part of the economy of the entire country,

00:26bringing the United States closer every day to what is already being called a recessionary mega-recession.

00:35If those who are washing dishes and cooking in all the restaurants

00:38are going to have to be United States citizens, those who wait on tables.

00:47Those who pick tomatoes, corn and oranges, those who clean the vegetables,

00:50those who drive the trucks on those roads to take them to the supermarkets.

00:56If they are all going to have to be United States citizens,

01:01they will not be able to continue paying them the very low amounts they are paying the immigrants.

01:05They did not think about that.

01:07No one is going to win in this.

01:19Especially sectors such as gastronomy and construction are being hit the hardest.

01:23Business is down a lot by 50 or 60 percent or so, and that's everywhere.

01:31Everywhere you go, people are complaining.

01:38Immigrant seizure operations such as the one that occurred in Tallahassee, Florida,

01:42where 100 workers were arrested for ICE,

01:45along with another one that occurred in a chain of hardware stores,

01:48are leaving the construction sector paralyzed and on the verge of economic collapse.

01:52We found ourselves in one of the stores of the Home Depot chain,

01:58which are the warehouses that sell construction materials.

02:01This place has become the epicenter of the ICE raids,

02:04because everyday immigrants come here in search of work.

02:06Being deported, immigrants have stopped going to buy and offer their services to this hardware store,

02:18which has already lost 14 percent of its shares in the stock market.

02:25And the national economy is expected to shrink by up to 50 percent.

02:29But still the raids don't stop now.

02:31ICE agents are hunting immigrants even in the crop fields,

02:33thus compromising the country's food supply chain.

02:44The United States has a shortage of employees,

02:46and if you eliminate 5 million, 10 million, 15 million,

02:5120 million immigrant workers who have no documentation in the United States,

02:54and you have nothing to replace them with,

02:56there is going to be a very high inflation.

02:58We have a few strong years ahead of us of not only deporting many good people that are in this country.

03:15But what is going to affect the economy in these next three years,

03:18I am really afraid that we are going to have a recession in financial terms.

03:21Despite having given a supposed pause to the immigration raids in hotels,

03:33restaurants and farm fields,

03:34Trump ordered again to resume the ICE operations in those workplaces.

03:38According to analysts,

03:40the cost-benefit of the immigration raids that Donald Trump is implementing

03:43is the same that he has applied in many of his own companies.

03:46Many of them have ended up bankrupt.

03:48They have ended up in Bancarrota.

03:51Pablo Daniel Ho

03:52y Henry Camelo,

03:54Telesur,

03:55Nueva York.

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