Economics
What the US Would Lose If Trump Pushes Out Legal Immigrants
An influx of migrants has filled essential positions and helped keep a lid on wage pressures at a time of high US inflation.
Illustration: Zhenya Oliynyk for Bloomberg Businessweek
All over America, companies and communities that have come to rely on newly arrived immigrants to make their business models work are in for a rude wake-up call: President Donald Trump is intent on shutting down that labor pipeline.
The migrant workforce that’s been behind the bulk of US job creation since 2020 is under threat from both directions: Trump is pushing to strip legal protections and accompanying work permits from hundreds of thousands of people already in the US at the same time his border crackdown has pretty much stopped new arrivals.