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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

US workers say Trump’s immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages: ‘A strain on everybody’

person wearing orange hardhat in a factory
A production line at a Kraft Heinz plant in Champaign, Illinois in March 2020. In another factory in Holland, Michigan, workers are being asked to work overtime. Photograph: Chicago Tribune/TNS/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to leave their jobs.

As economists warn the administration’s full-scale deportation ambitions could ultimately cost millions of jobs, workers at two sites – in Michigan and Kentucky – told the Guardian that industrial giants are grappling with labor shortages.

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