Trump’s immigration crackdown is removing workers from jobs as cleaners and at senior care facilities and farms, disrupting an economy already facing slowing job growth and labor shortages.

Monthly hiring averaged 29,000 jobs from June through August, down from 400,000 during the post-pandemic boom, as deportations target workers who helped ease inflation.

Maria worked cleaning schools in Florida for $13 an hour. Every two weeks, she’d get a $900 paycheck from her employer, a contractor. Not much — but enough to cover rent in the house that she and her 11-year-old son share with five families, plus electricity, a cellphone and groceries.

In August, it all ended.

When she showed up at the job one morning, her boss told her that she couldn’t work there anymore. The Trump administration h

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