The U.S. Immigration Council has not approved or opposed the selected office candidate. We aim to provide analysis on the impact of elections on immigration systems in the United States.
Karen Aho and Anna Shaperson
Chicago has been supporting immigration raids since the president’s inauguration. This is in accordance with the hints of becoming the first sanctuary targeted under the Trump administration’s exerted initiative.
On Sunday, “Operation Safeguard” began in Chicago, and the U.S. Immigration Customs (ICE) announced “strengthening the target business” and announced several federal government agencies, and “U.S. Immigration Law enforced the US Immigration Law. Maintain public safety and national security. “
There is no information about the number of people detained by ice. In fact, people who are dangerous and have a threat of public safety, that is, the target of sweep. However, the current harsh method of ice crackdowns is a city where unwritten immigrants are indispensable to the economy, or in cities where unwanted immigrants are more likely to act as criminals than US citizens. I know that it is creating.
“People are scared,” said the residents, Alvares Basket, to Chicago Tribune. “They don’t want to go out. They don’t work much because they are afraid of being caught or expelled.”
This fear has a catastrophic effect on Chicago’s labor. An analysis of the American Immigration Council indicates that about 90 % of immigrants that are not documented in the Chicago metropolitan area have been working age in 2023, the recent year, which can be obtained from the American community survey. Masu. Uncuttingized immigrants account for almost one -third of maids and housekeeping cleaners (32.9 %), construction workers (30.5 %), cooks (30 %), painters and paper hangers (30 %). I did it. Among the landscaping and ground -placed workers, 42.1 % were unwritten immigrants.
In fact, 15.6 % (or nearly one among six workers) of the Chicago construction industry as a whole was composed of unwritten immigrants that year. Similarly, documents are 13.5 % of manufacturers. 11.8 % of the labor in the hospitality industry, including hotels and restaurants. 8.9 % of wholesalers. In addition, 8.8 % of workers hired by general services, such as car repair, barber shops, and laundry services.
Samsanchez, a veteran Chicago Restaurant owner and a past chairman of the Illino Restaurant Association, told the Eater Shikago last week that the restaurant industry would collapse without unwritten workers, and fear was immediately recorded. I added that even workers would drive as if they were at home.
“I don’t want to be wiped out by legal employees,” said Rebecca Sea, Executive Director of the U.S. Business Immigration Union. “Expansion of abroad is a very dull instrument.”
Some children do not go to school. People skip the appointment of medical care. There is a reason for fear. Last week, President Donald Trump allows officials to arrest immigrants in schools, nursery schools, hospitals, shelters, worship areas, and other delicate places that were considered to be ongoing. Published a presidential order. Trump has promised not only for those who have criminal and have a threat to public safety, but also to expell us of unprecedented immigrants. The Washington Post reported that Agents had demanded 1,200 to 1,500 arrests per day. This threatened to increase the number of people a day in the previous administration and to be accountable for ICE field managers when the daily allocation was not satisfied. ICE reported the arrest of 956 arrests nationwide on Sunday.
In Chicago, one of the first cities, the restaurant has already reported a decrease in customers. This is almost not surprising. Immigrants make up a considerable consumer base. In 2023, 1.8 million immigrants lived in a metropolitan area in Chicago, and 27.2 % were unwritten immigrants. Included immoral households have been spending $ 13.6 billion output in 2023, spending meals, shopping, and local services.
This is a disposable income that unwritten households have paid a total of $ 2.5 billion, including $ 1.8 billion, a federal tax, and a federal tax. These important tax revenues support public schools, social programs, and public infrastructure.
Unwritten immigrants are essential for supplying fuel to the economy and supporting the local community as well as consumers and taxpayers. In Chicago, 9.1 % of entrepreneurs are not documented, but only 5.1 % of the population of the entire metro region.
Raids targeting these unwritten immigrants do not make the community safer. Past research has already indicated that unwritten immigrants will not increase the crime rate. However, the local economy will suffer from these raids because the labor force is small, the business activities are small, and the employment opportunities for foreigners and the United States are employed. Perhaps the worst, these raids stimulate fears in cities that have been targeted, and all immigrants reduce the safety of life and work in the community.
Submitted below: Chicago, Trump administration
