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Posted on 07/07/2025 4:24:27 PM PDT by Morgana
ICE raids across Los Angeles have driven the migrant workforce into hiding, sparking concerns over the sanctuary city's already rocky economic state.
As the California city tries to recuperate from wildfires, businesses and developers have revealed they do not have the manpower to get these crucial jobs done.
LA has one of the nation's largest immigrant workforces, with nearly 38 percent of workers originating outside the US, according to 2023 data.
Estimates from the Public Policy Institute of California suggest than one in 10 workers in the Golden State are undocumented immigrants, while the Migration Policy Institute reports there are roughly 950,000 'unauthorized' residents in LA county.
Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has caused a stir among a significant portion of LA's laborers - especially after a recent bout of raids.
'Papers or not, fear spreads quickly,' real estate consulting firm Hilgard Founding Principal Joshua Baum told Bloomberg.
'When workers do not feel safe showing up to job sites, it slows down not only the pace of construction but also the willingness to propose new projects in the first place.'
Immigration agents arrested more than 1,600 people in LA between June 6 and June 22, Bloomberg reported.
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Oh my democrats and their slaves
1600. Good job, but a drop in the bucket.
“LA has one of the nation’s largest immigrant workforces, with nearly 38 percent of workers originating outside the US, according to 2023 data.”
The author omitted one tiny detail from that sentence.
Why are all these innocent immigrants getting arrested?
LA runs on cheap labor. Who’d a thunk it.
One in ten people is California is in the country working illegally. Meanwhile legal California poor residents can’t find work. Got it.
Fortunately, the mexicn border is only a hundred miles or so south of la.
Fearful illegals can quickly self deport back to the safety of their native
country.
I see the sarcasm
Just ‘workers’ and elites.
So LA degrades itself into a hole and the narrative is
Change is bad.
Great story
OUT! GET OUT!!!
I bet 40+ % of people living in the LA area are illegal alien invaders who are parasites on the US Taxpayer. GET OUT!!!
I’m not seeing it yet on the 405, more ICE baby!
Flakes, flakes! They don’t do no good! They never be workin’ when they oughta should! They waste your time; they’re wastin’ mine. California’s got the most of them … boy, they got a host of them …
ILLEGAL does not equate with “innocent”. Thrown these illegal invading parasites OUT!
Only 40%? You are way too generous. I would have said 60% or maybe higher.
Word Travels Fast !
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Self Deport !
That’s not a good job at all. With all the manpower in LA, It should be half the 950,000 illegals in the city.
Bye!
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