Trump’s prices and deportations contribute prices, fewer immigrant workers

After the projections that the mass deportations of President Donald Trump negative impact on the American economyThe nation sees a leap in the prices of wholesale vegetables and slowdowns in the industries based on immigrant workers.

The economic measures which flow lead some to underline the repression of the immigration of the administration, as well as the prices, as at least partly responsible for the crisis in certain economic sectors and the rise in prices.

The last one comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which reported Thursday A huge increase of 38.9% of wholesale prices of pulses and fresh vegetables From June to July, the largest since March 2022.

Phil Kafarakis, president of the IMFA The Food of Home Association, which represents food producers, suppliers, services and industries outside of grocery stores, said that warning panels should be taken seriously.

Due to the deportation efforts, “you will now end up with not enough workers in the fields to collect and collect the product as it happens to the harvest,” he said, adding that he is contributing to the effect “horribly and incredibly impactful” of the prices.

Combined with drought, excessive floods and forest fires, deportations arise and will become a greater problem at the end of summer and early fall, he said.

“I don’t think people are doing,” there will be an increase in vegetable costs in restaurants, grocery stores and other places, said Kafarakis.

Although the administration has not yet reached the levels of deportation that Trump has promised in his campaign, the number of people arrested by immigration and the application of customs in June was his The highest monthly arrests in at least five years.

This week, the Dallas Federal Reserve has published a report indicating Texas economy has softened in the middle of uncertainty. Business owners have told the Dallas Federal Reserve that uncertainty about prices and immigration policy posed investment and hiring challenges.

“Immigration implementation measures also affect the capacity of certain companies to recruit and retain workers,” said the agency in its report.

The Federal Bank regularly examines companies in Texas. In his investigation in July, the inability to hire skilled workers because they lacked license or legal status “was the most widespread impact of companies having suffered disruption of the workforce,” said the reserve bank.

The report quoted a manufacturer of machines who declared in response to questions from the survey: “Workers born abroad is doing the job. We need them, we use them and we love them. ”

Immigrant workers are a large part of Texas labor. In an April report, the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank said that the share of Texas companies reporting on its survey that they relying on workers who had moved to Texas from another country from 15% in 2023 to 25% in 2024.

“The increase was in all sectors, with around a third of manufacturers who rely on immigrant workers”, ” The bank then declared.

In A report published Thursday By the defense group of immigrants America’s Voice, the authors noted that cycling immigrant workers in and outside the country stopped, mainly due to border restrictions reducing the influx of immigrants.

“The country loses workers without being replaced by unfavorable economic consequences,” said Robert Lynch’s report, Michael Ettlinger and Emma Sifre. Lynch is a professor of economics at Washington College. Ettlinger is a founding director of the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy, and Sifre is an analyst of the Institute on taxation and economic policy.

Lynch said that the number of agriculture workers and related industries increased from March to July in 2023 and 2024. But employment in industries these same months of this year dropped 155,000 workers, down 6.5%.

In construction, the 10 states with the highest concentrations of unauthorized workers saw employment drop by 0.1% from June 2024 to June 2025, while other states saw it increase by 1.9%, according to the report. In addition, the growth of the United States not in the top 10 was less than a year ago, against growth of 2.3%.

About 7% of leisure and hospitality workers are undocumented and are mainly focused in the restaurants of restaurants and the hotel, said Lynch. States with higher concentrations of unauthorized workers are experiencing slower growth in this area, he said.

The use of food services increased by 0.2% in immigrant states raised in the past year, against 1.5% in other states, the report said.

“The loss of a large part of this workforce is probably particularly harmful because there have been nearly a million jobs not filled with leisure and hospitality as recently as in April of this year,” said Lynch.

The number of workers born abroad in the country increased from 33.3 million in January to around 32.1 million in July, a loss of around 1.2 million workers, according to the analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures by the National Foundation for American Policy, A trade and immigration research group.

Stuart Anderson, executive director of the Foundation, said that so far there was no corresponding increase in the participation of the work of American workers.

“The reason you see slowdowns is that when employers cannot find enough workers, they will invest less,” he said.

Antonio de Loera-Burst, spokesperson for United Agricultural workers, wondered if there were really shortages of labor in agriculture.

He said workers were afraid and recognized Raids have occurred in certain areas and work sites related to agriculture.

But “many workers I talk to are desperate for work. There is not enough work,” said Loera-Burst. The hours are cut and workers are invited to do in six hours what they did in eight, he said.

“We died against deportations,” he said, referring to the UFW.

He said that what seems to happen is that producers use the disruptions of immigration raids on their businesses “as their last argument to explain why Congress should give them their long -standing priority, which is to bring more guest workers and pay them less.”

Trump was under pressure from companies that rely on immigrant workers, in particular the agricultural industry, to ensure that they have a safe and reliable workforce.

Trump moved his plans on how to respond. At the start, he stopped arrests of workers in the agriculture and hotel industry, then he restarted the raids, And later he said he was considering Creation of temporary passes for certain workers.