Indpendent, UK -Preliminary data suggests more than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the United States’ labor force between January and July – an indication that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies will have a significant impact on the workforce.
Immigrants make up nearly 20 percent of the U.S. labor force, according to census data analyzed by the Pew Research Center, with many working in farming, fishing, forestry, construction, and the service sector.
But as a result of Trump’s crackdown on immigration, the number of migrants, both with legal status and in the U.S. illegally, is declining, according to Pew’s analysis.
It’s unclear how much of that decline can be attributed directly to voluntary departures versus removals directed by the Trump administration. Data about undocumented immigrants is notoriously difficult to obtain due to underreporting.
The decline in foreign-born immigration participation is reflected in official data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which also estimated a drop of about 1.2 million people between January and July.
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