More than 1.2 million immigrants have disappeared from the workforce under the Trump administration
Immigrants represent almost 20% of the American workforce, but given the fear of being deported, the panorama changed
It is estimated that immigrants make up almost 20% of the United States workforce and 45% of workers in the agriculture, fishing, and forestry sectors are in that status, however, given the new political landscape, this situation has changed.
After Donald Trump's return to the The White House, in its second non-consecutive term, has revealed that at least 1.2 million migrants have disappeared from the U.S. workforce. This decrease, the first in decades, adds to the cuts proposed by the Republican leader's administration to the International Labor Organization (ILO).
According to reports from the AP news agency, the fear of being detained and returned to their countries has caused thousands of undocumented immigrants to choose to abandon their jobs.
That is, while parades and other events are held in celebration of the contributions of workers in the United States for the Labor Day holiday, experts say that President Donald Trump's intensified immigration policies are affecting the country's workforce.
The loss of immigrant workers comes at a time when the country is experiencing the first decline in the overall immigrant population after the number of people in the United States with this status reached an all-time high of 14 million in 2023.
During his campaign, Trump promised to deport millions of immigrants working illegally in the United States. He has said he is focusing deportations on “dangerous criminals,” but most of the people detained by ICE do not have criminal records. At the same time, the number of illegal border crossings has plummeted.
“In his first 100 days since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump implemented 181 executive actions on immigration to restrict the arrival of new immigrants and deport non-citizen immigrants. The full effects of these policies remain to be seen,But they are already contributing to the decline of the immigrant population, especially the undocumented population," notes an article from the Pew Research Center, which highlights that more than half of migrants in the United States come from Latin American nations such as Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, and Venezuela.