Legal US Workforce Braces for Loss of 800,000 Foreigners

All over America, companies and communities that have come to rely on newly arrived immigrants to make their business models work are in for a rude wake-up call: President Donald Trump is intent on shutting down that labor pipeline.

The migrant workforce that’s been behind the bulk of US job creation since 2020 is under threat from both directions: Trump is pushing to strip legal protections and accompanying work permits from hundreds of thousands of people already in the US at the same time his border crackdown has pretty much stopped new arrivals.

On the first front, the immediate ...