Posted on 07/26/2026 3:50:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.
Around Washington, Salvadoran-born crews have helped renovate, rebuild and maintain the Capitol, the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. In senior living facilities in Florida, Massachusetts and New York, Haitian caregivers assist aging Americans with daily activities.
These workers are among more than one million people who have been allowed to live and work in the United States under a decades-old humanitarian program, and who now face the prospect of deportation.
Last month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status, as the humanitarian program is known, and now industries are bracing for the loss of vital workers.
About 70 percent of T.P.S. holders were participating in the U.S. labor force, many in construction and health care, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.
But on Monday, about 350,000 T.P.S. recipients from Haiti and several other countries will lose their work permits in the first wave of fallout from the Supreme Court ruling. About 190,000 Salvadoran beneficiaries could be next to lose their status when it expires in September.
“For particular places and particular industries, tens of thousands of workers no longer able to legally work is going to be a very big hit,” said Alexander Arnon, the director of policy analysis at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research organization that has analyzed the economic impacts of T.P.S. workers.
Economists say the loss of those workers could be gradual, as some pursue other potential protections, such as asylum, and others continue working but off the books.
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The work place will balance out.
And your point is?
Just pull the rug out from under from those on government assistance and let the chips fall where they may.
Gonna be awesome.
There is no such thing as a “shortage” in a Free Market.
If the Supply of Labor is reduced because lawbreakers were forced to go home, then the Price (wages) of the Legal American Workers GOES UP!
Is the author opposed to actual Americans earning more?
Probably…
Boo Hoo?
Goes the same for aliens previously allowed to work.
We may change our rules as and when. We see fit.
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.
Oh no. now employers will have to pay wages to Americans who won’t work for peanuts. The have been profitting off cheap labor and now they get to take it in the shorts.
“ Just pull the rug out from under from those on government assistance and let the chips fall where they may.”
Would be the sanest thing we’ve done since LBJ cobbled together this debacle.
NY SLIMES...ignore
That’s what Trump is all about. Less illegals, more work for legal US residents!
>>“For particular places and particular industries, tens of thousands of workers no longer able to legally work is going to be a very big hit,”
Perhaps those “particular places and particular industries” should have hired Americans....
HALF of blacks are on welfare in some manner.
HALF.
Free the slaves!
Independence and dignity for ALL!
Hire Americans.
L
Exactly, like my Dad told me long ago there is no such thing as a labor shortage there are only wage shortage.
Temporary should be, well, temporary!
The Slimes admits that they know rich billionaires are taking of “workers” by paying them under the table but they’re okay with it.
I think most of the corporate leader types would consider self-immolation first.
“Is the author opposed to actual Americans earning more?”
Maybe, but I susprct the main concern is abolishing the concept of importing foreign slave labor, the modern version.
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