Posted on 10/18/2025 1:26:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Maria worked cleaning schools in Florida for $13 an hour. Every two weeks, she’d get a $900 paycheck from her employer, a contractor. Not much — but enough to cover rent in the house that she and her 11-year-old son share with five families, plus electricity, a cellphone and groceries.
In August, it all ended.
When she showed up at the job one morning, her boss told her that she couldn’t work there anymore. The Trump administration had terminated President Joe Biden’s humanitarian parole program, which provided legal work permits for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans as well as Nicaraguans like Maria.
“I feel desperate,’’ said Maria, 48, who requested anonymity to talk about her ordeal because she fears being detained and deported. “I don’t have any money to buy anything. I have $5 in my account. I’m left with nothing.’’
President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration is throwing foreigners like Maria out of work and shaking the American economy and job market. And it’s happening at a time when hiring is already deteriorating amid uncertainty over Trump’s erratic trade policies.
Immigrants do jobs — cleaning houses, picking tomatoes, painting fences — that most native-born Americans won’t, and for less money. But they also bring the technical skills and entrepreneurial energy that have helped make the United States the world’s economic superpower.
Trump is attacking immigration at both ends of spectrum, deporting low-wage laborers and discouraging skilled foreigners from bringing their talents to the United States.
And he is targeting an influx of foreign workers that eased labor shortages and upward pressure on wages and prices at a time when most economists thought that taming inflation would require sky-high interest rates and a recession — a fate the United States escaped in 2023 and 2024.
“Immigrants are good for the economy...’'
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Answer to her problem: Self deport and get $.
EBT card holders can fill those jobs.
Do we have to be constantly bombarded with the BS from AP?
Just shows how dems STILL LOVE SLAVERY. If we had picked our own cotton we would have been better off.
Googled a bit. Looks like she can apply for a green card.
“And he is targeting an influx of foreign workers that eased labor shortages and upward pressure on wages”
just a few months ago, the Dems had been screaming for years about “living wages” for working folk ... all of a sudden “living wages” is a bad thing now that the marketplace will deliver said “living wages” instead of the Democrats delivering them ...
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Is she a legal immigrant or an illegal one?
sharing with 5 families...What benefits do the other 5 families have? We’re only getting half the story.
LOL! Just look at this ridiculous propaganda. Trump has ended the betrayal of American workers by allowing in a horde of illegal aliens and H1Bs. There is of course no “labor shortage”. There is a good paying jobs shortage. Oh, and inflation is lower than it was before.
As for this woman, she can get some money by agreeing to be deported. She will get a cash payment and free transport back to her country.
She needs to go home.
Enough of this democrat pity party crap about illegals. American is for Americans and for the immigrants we CHOSE TO ACCEPT. Not for the illegals democrats bring here to vote for them and to destabilize the country.
GO HOME ILLEGALS. Take the offer and if you want to come back put your name on a list like all the other LEGAL immigrants who come here. A thief is NOT the same as a house guest. A dope pusher is not the same as a pharmacist... An illegal is NOT the same as an immigrant.
My violin is so tiny I can’t find it
It’s not affecting Longmont, Colorado. You’d think you were in Mexico city.
Americans aren’t doing the jobs because illegals are doing them for slave wages and sucking medical, etc. benefits. Thank your Chamber of Commerce slave overlords for most of those sad stories.
Thank you Jorge Bush…
Not just Dems. Do you really believe the people hiring illegals in part because of cheap labor and a way to avoid other government regulations are all voting Democrat?
The slavemasters sure are trying to hold on to their slaves.
“… as well as Nicaraguans like Maria.”
I’m sure life will be more pleasant in your socialist paradise, Maria.
From Wiki: “ President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front sought re-election, while five opposition candidates appeared on the ballot. In early June, police arrested five other potential opposition candidates: Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, Arturo Cruz Jr., Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Miguel Mora. In July candidates Medardo Mairena and Noel Vidaurre [es] were arrested, while Luis Fley and María Asunción Moreno [es] went into exile due to threats of arrest.”
We have a really big potential workforce that can be put in motion. We trained them to hold down their couches during covid. They’ll get moving if the free stuff dries up.
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