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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Murdochs sad
Seems Homan is focusing on blue cities
Here ICE is working deep blue Nashville proper poking at our chinless pencil necked Jewish with Irish last name far left mayor
Meanwhile surrounding deep red 7-9 metro counties not so much
Boo hoo
Yes, that was cute how she did that, wasn’t it?
Wonder what the slave labor % was in Charleston SC in 1860?
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