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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Illegals doing the work that Americans won’t do: sex slaves, slave labor, drug dealing, gangs, robbery, murder, etc.
LA will never recuperate as long as Commie Karen Bass is Mayor and Brylcreem Newsom remains governor for another year and a half.
“Who’s going to pick the cotton?!?!”
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The dirty secret is when illegals are deported the legal employees remaining all get raises and time and half overtime. ( happened to me )
“Satanic City” or Iconic City?
Via con Dios....
The truth is the left figured that if they let in enough illegals, nobody would ever dare try to kick them out. Mass defiance of the law, basically.
Turned out they were wrong, and now the party of "nobody is above the law" is left arguing that millions of illegals should be.
Arrest those illegally hiring illegal aliens too
To be Known as the Great Big Beautiful
“Trump Round-Up” !
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The Wall will soon be Finished and
A Large percentage Will be instilled with the Fact that ILLEGAL ENTRY to USA is a Fools errand!
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illegal
A good hing place for illegals is the country they came from. GTFO!
ISGAS
I Scarcely Give A .......
anxious about the raids?
$1,000 and a free trip home
what a deal
you cant beat it
all your worries will be over
Lost Angeless
As the California city tries to recuperate from wildfires and decades of democRAT destruction.
They need to arrest and prosecute their employers too.
More arrests, please.
So hire American workers
Enforce the existing civil penalties for those employing illegals.
Report them all. Every one.
1600 out of over 1,000,000! lol Saw a recent screenshot of the traffic map in LA and it was all green! NO traffic! :)
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