labor force

Many of the undocumented workers who manage to avoid ICE will be forced to withdraw from the labor force.

In the U.S., he writes, “immigrants are more likely to be of working age and have higher rates of labor force participation, compared to U.S.-born individuals.”

The reality is undocumented migrants are “just part of our labor force,” Thornberg added.

“It didn’t bring a lot of those men on the couch back into the labor force,” he said.

Kachuck said he would welcome a tariff, but pointed out that another major Trump initiative — deporting millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally — could seriously deplete his and other farmers’ labor forces.