President Donald Trump directed federal officials to expand efforts to deport migrants in the largest US cities in the face of protests and court challenges, even as his administration is looking to ease the impact on key sectors of the US workforce. Trump recently acknowledged the impact his deportation agenda has had on rural communities hit hard by the loss of agricultural workers. He said he would craft policy changes to cover farm and hotel industry workers.
Data in early June showed the US workforce shrunk in May, partly because of the largest back-to-back decline in the number of foreign workers in the labor force since 2020. In June, protesters rallied in hundreds of US cities to denounce what they said were Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, including the increased deportations and tactics used to carry them out.
Source: Crain’s New York Business
