Undocumented workers are terrified right now. And so are the employers who depend on them.
President Donald Trump regained power alongside harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric. He’s promised mass deportations, expanded plans for nationwide raids, and uses local law enforcement as immigration enforcers. Immigrants and their employers remember what happened last time Trump was in office : ICE cracked down on immigrant workers in meatpacking plants, construction zones, and farm fields, often during business hours, and often with devastating effects.
For workers, these raids meant detention, family separation , and deportation. For employers, they meant abrupt labor shortages, and, in some cases, shuttered operations. Yet even in that hostile environment, the U.S. economy continued to rely