Posted on 08/12/2025 7:49:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Trump administration’s immigration policies are affecting workers and driving, in part, a decline in tourism, including international tourists, to Las Vegas, according to workers and the largest labor union in the state of Nevada.
Visitors to Las Vegas overall dropped 11.3% in June 2025, compared to the same month last year. According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, international visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June.
“A lot of departments are having a lot of layoffs,” said Norma Torres, a housekeeper for eight years at Mandalay Bay and a member of the Culinary Union, who has worked in the hospitality industry since she was 18 years old. “In the housekeeping department, the people on call are barely called into work.”
Canada is Nevada’s largest international market. Flair Airlines, a Canadian airline, reported a 55% drop in passengers compared to last year. Air Canada reported a 13.2% drop in passengers from May to June this year to Las Vegas, and one third lower compared to last year.
Trump administration officials have reportedly pushed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents to arrest 3,000 people a day as part of their anti-immigration agenda. They have subsequently denied that those quotas exist. But they have continued to revoke immigration statuses, delayed action for childhood arrivals, and other humanitarian immigration programs.
“If you tell the rest of the world you’re not welcome, they are going to listen. Our members are telling us that they’re quite nervous, and that’s why they’re calling it a Trump slump,” said Ted Pappageorge, secretary treasurer of Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
But the Ice raids, trade wars with trading partners and fears that rising tariffs will hit the finances of potential visitors are all having an impact...
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Yes.......................
....or it could also be the outrageous costs, drugged up homeless and the ghetto amish, smell of weed everywhere etc
Are they saying that the slump is caused by illegal aliens not going to vegas?
That doesn’t seem reasonable.
What killed the crowds was resort fees, fifty dollar parking, hundred dollar table limits, sixteen dollar bottles of water, and porn pimps, mental cases, and petty thieves wandering the streets. Welcome to paradise!
Nonsense... It’s not ICE that’s causing woes in Vegas... It’s the lack of money flowing from Alberta oil workers who typically traveled to Vegas on a regular basis... A lot of them are immigrants and they won’t travel south because they’re worried about being scrutinized... Then there the actual Canadians who aren’t traveling to Vegas as well... Those oilpatch workers are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and planes leave every weekend from Fort MacMurray heading to Vegas... Those planes aren’t as full as they used to be.
This youtuber lives in Vegas and does video reports about Vegas. He knows what's going on.
Who’s got the spare cash to run to Vegas and throw it into the wind?
Plus America is aging. Boomers born in 1948 are now 55+, and Gen X is minimalist.
Even Uber-Liberal and Trump Hater, Robert DeNiro called it at the end of “Casino”, 30 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN32RTMJaJI
A great link, thanks for posting. I saw this a few days ago as well - in one of these the narrator had to pixel out some freak exposing himself in the background. Like he needed more proof?
Steve ghosted me live a few days ago when I commented after he logged off that I would never pay cash to watch an influencer on patreon.
His next video he went off on mowowie for posting it.
:)
Nothing about the homeless or the potheads and their odours. And the gang bangers.
Online Sports betting in many states is also a reason for the drop in Vegas visits. When/If California legalizes online betting...Vegas will be in a world of hurt.
COVID was the excuse to jack up prices. They never come down, one of the flaws of capitalism.
Casinos maximizing their profits and charging for everything might have something to do with it.
The casino here in Arkansas charges 69.99 for the buffet.
and almost every state has the lottery and scratch offs.
Best description yet.
The costs of the show, food, hotels are driving people away.
Then if you do go, you are hit with a resort fees and parking fees. By the time they are done, you got no money left to gamble.
Nobody want s to go there anymore because the costs for everything is too high. People used to love to go to conventions in Vegas for the food, shows and gambling. Now they can’t afford to gamble after paying for everything else.
Not the crappy shows or over over over priced meals etc;-)
Yep, up to $100/night just for those. That used to buy a cheap room.
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