Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home. Construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality employers say labor shortages will worsen.
Category: Foreign Workers
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Disrupt St. Louis’s Growth Strategy
Shrinking cities have tried to stabilize their populations with foreign-born residents. The strategy was working, until the inauguration.
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Jobs Report Today Will Offer First Look at 2025 Labor Market
Economists forecast a steady pace of hiring, slightly dampened by fires and cold snaps and clouded by annual data adjustments.
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Friday’s Jobs Report Will Be Confusing. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.
The Labor Department’s January survey will include revisions making data for previous months look stronger in some cases and weaker in others.
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What Is the H-1B Visa Program and Why Are Trump Backers Feuding Over It?
A debate over the program for skilled foreign workers has pitted immigration hard-liners against some of President Trump’s most influential supporters in the tech industry.
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Meatpacking Companies to Pay $8 Million for U.S. Child Labor Violations
Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their slaughterhouses. Most of the money will be used to help the children.
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How TSMC’s Arizona Chip Plant Seeded a Tiny Taipei in the Desert
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a global tech giant, brought thousands of workers from Asia to the Phoenix suburbs for jobs at a plant that the Biden administration helped fund.
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Trump Weighs In on Immigrant Visa Debate but Offers Little Clarity
He said in an interview that he had used the visas for skilled workers “many times.” But he has mainly used visas for unskilled workers like housekeepers.
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Trump Backers, Including Elon Musk, Clash With Far Right Over Immigrant Workers and H-1B Visas
A fierce dispute erupted in the president-elect’s camp between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders including Elon Musk.
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Undocumented Workers Take on Dangerous Jobs to Feed America
Undocumented workers help feed America’s hunger for prepared foods, but some take jobs with staffing agencies that expose them to hazardous conditions.
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Tech Makes an Economic Case for Skilled Immigrants. Will Trump Bite?
Silicon Valley hopes that tech giants like Elon Musk could help to push the incoming Trump administration toward offering more visas to highly skilled foreign workers.
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Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier Into Upheaval
Jabil says it required “herculean efforts” to replace employees from a staffing agency. Other businesses are bracing for “an enforcement storm” under President-elect Trump.