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(DIR) Post #AvDqPNsALyOrpeOmJ6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:11:00Z
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#Immigration raids in #LosAngeles hit #SmallBusiness ownersJuan Ibarra stands outside his fruit & vegetable outlet in LA’s vast fresh #produce market where Hispanic & Latin restaurateurs, street vendors & food truck operators buy supplies every day.On Monday morning, the usually bustling market was largely empty. Since #ICE began conducting #workplace raids, including at a #textile factory 2 blocks away, Ibarra said #business has virtually dried up.#economy #Trump https://www.reuters.com/world/us/immigration-raids-los-angeles-hit-small-business-owners-its-worse-than-covid-2025-06-17/
(DIR) Post #AvDqhHe2FOdhjGKAO8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:14:12Z
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His street vendor customers are at home in hiding, while #restaurant workers are too scared to travel to the market to pick up supplies. The market's workers who are in the US illegally have stopped showing up.Ibarra, who pays $8,500 a month in rent for his outlet, which sells grapes, pineapples, melons, peaches, tomatoes & corn, usually takes in about $2,000 on a normal day. Now it's $300, if he's lucky.#Trump #immigration #economy #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDqzlEoxVP4ivLDBw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:17:34Z
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…For the first time since the #ICE raids began, Ibarra was forced to throw out rotten fruit. He has to pay a garbage company $70 a pallet to do that."It's pretty much a ghost town. It's almost COVID-like. People are scared. We can only last so long like this - a couple of months maybe."Ibarra, 32, who was born in the US to Mexican parents & is a #US #citizen, is not alone in seeing #Trump's crackdown on #immigrants devastate his #SmallBusiness.#immigration #economy #business
(DIR) Post #AvDrGxqbKZ1SknDR4q by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:20:40Z
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It's happening across #LosAngeles, #California[& beyond] other #business owners & experts say, & threatens to significantly damage the local #economy.⅓ of California's workers are #immigrants & 40% of its entrepreneurs are foreign-born, acc/to the American #Immigration Council.The #Trump admin, concerned about the economic impacts of his #MassDeportation policy, shifted its focus in recent days, telling #ICE to pause raids on #farms, #restaurants & #hotels [but has reversed that guidance].
(DIR) Post #AvDrPd51ucdkx362ca by n_dimension@infosec.exchange
2025-06-17T13:22:14Z
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@Nonilex Trump is bombing the economies of Blue states. Convince me he is not a traitor
(DIR) Post #AvDraopQZYWSZd8Nea by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:24:16Z
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…[Predictably] Abigail Jackson, a White House spox, said [it was the] *violent* #protesters in #LosAngeles [who] had created an unsafe environment for local businesses. "It’s the *Democrat* *riots* - not enforcement of federal immigration law - that is hurting small businesses," Jackson told Reuters.[right, because the #protests are taking place in the produce market 🤦🏼♀️]#Trump #immigration #economy #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDrxAwn13wrXpEpYO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:28:19Z
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The recent [very brief] shift in focus by #Trump & #ICE has been no help for Pedro Jimenez, 62, who has run & owned a Mexican #restaurant in a largely working class, Hispanic [Latin] neighborhood in #LosAngeles for 24 years.Many in his community are so scared of ICE they are staying home & have stopped frequenting his restaurant.#immigration #economy #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDs5SM2BFxPqfzjcm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:29:48Z
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Jimenez, who crossed into the US illegally but received #citizenship in 1987 after Republican President Reagan signed legislation granting #amnesty to many #immigrants without legal status, said he's taking in $7,000 a week less than he was 2 weeks ago.Last Friday & Saturday he closed at 5PM, rather than 9PM, because his #restaurant was empty."This is really hurting everybody's business," he said. "It's terrible. It's worse than COVID."#Trump #immigration #economy #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDsEeJb52gxYBEpxg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:31:23Z
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Andrew Selee, president of the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, said the #Trump admin [supposedly] began its #immigration crackdown by focusing on people with #criminal convictions. But that has shifted to #workplace raids in the past 2 weeks, he said."They are targeting the hard working #immigrants who are most integrated in American society," Selee said.#economy #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDsYQ1DwYSl0E4TXE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:35:01Z
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"The more #immigration enforcement is indiscriminate & broad, rather than targeted, the more it disrupts the American #economy in very real ways."Across #LosAngeles, #immigrants described hunkering down, some even skipping work, to avoid ICE.Luis, 45, a Guatemalan hot dog vendor who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of being targeted by #ICE, said this weekend he went to the Santa Fe Springs swap meet - a flea market & music event.#Trump #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDseiP8UzJzlKG4x6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-17T13:36:10Z
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Luis was told by others that #ICE officers had just been there.He & other vendors without legal #immigration status quickly left, he said."This has all been psychologically exhausting," he said. "I have to work to survive, but the rest of the time I stay inside."#Trump #economy #SmallBusiness #business
(DIR) Post #AvDslkkq9xkL4tlZJY by c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-17T13:37:22Z
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@Nonilex As California goes, so goes the nation. First agriculture, then retail will crash, and we will have the Great Depression, v.2.0. Only this time, there will not be an FDR to pull the country back from the edge. If the rat-bastard rich think they will get through this unscathed, well...don't bet on it.
(DIR) Post #AvDtI5d25Npx5IX90a by gjholmes@mastodon.social
2025-06-17T13:43:14Z
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@Nonilex Paul Krugman's take on Lies, Damned Lies and Deportationshttps://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-deportations
(DIR) Post #AvDuV0sv8NWW5ggvA0 by allynkhine@mastodon.social
2025-06-17T13:56:45Z
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@Nonilex tRump must have the cleanest mind, since he changes it so often.