It’s a real shame that businesses that are dependent on illegal immigrants are having such problems
Local economies under pressure as ICE crackdowns create climate of fear
Lupe Lopez’s Latino market in Newark, California, has been a shopping and social hub for decades — until recently.
Now the aisles are often quiet, the parking lot near empty, she said. Neighboring businesses are no different, she added: Restaurants, party and clothing stores, and even the big-box retailers seem to be emptier since the Trump administration ramped up its mass deportation campaign, raiding businesses across industries and targeting day workers in retail parking lots.
“The fear is felt in every aspect — no one is doing a party, no one is going anywhere,” the 68-year-old said of her customers. “The shelves are just untouched.”
From California grocery stores to chicken chains in suburban D.C., businesses that serve large immigrant populations are reporting shifts in consumer behavior — fewer in-store visits, lower receipts and more delivery orders — that threaten to drag down local economies, according to interviews with business owners, as well as spending data.
If your business model depends on illegals, you’re doing something wrong. They just figured that the illegal would be forever, and never really under any pressure for violating America’s borders. No one cries when another business has issues, such as Blockbuster, which made a huge mistake in not purchasing Netflix. And some other issues. Businesses get themselves into issues, which sometimes they cannot recover from. No one is getting all squishy.
Lopez says deportation fears are affecting who comes into her stores, noting that some of her undocumented customers are sending their U.S.-born children to pick up groceries. Even those here legally are afraid to be out during the day, she added, and many people carry their passport with them in case they are stopped.
“If this doesn’t stop, I feel it’s going to break our economy.”
Maybe do things to attract customers who are legally in the U.S.? Anyhow, it is a long, long article based on emotion, but, as the saying goes, we are a nation of Law, not Men. Meanwhile
Florida sprints ahead with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center project
Florida’s headline-grabbing push to create “Alligator Alcatraz” — an immigration detention center deep in the Everglades — happened swiftly, with little apparent notice to state legislators responsible for paying for it or to local officials who will have it on their doorstep.
It also may prove to be one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ most aggressive moves during his six-plus years in office. Citing the governor’s emergency powers, the state’s emergency management director told Miami-Dade County that it was taking control of an Everglades airstrip now owned by Miami-Dade County and located mainly in Collier County in order to begin building the multimillion dollar facility. (snip)
Not much was known publicly about the plans for the detention center until Attorney General James Uthmeier — DeSantis’ former chief of staff who was appointed to the job in February — talked up the idea of “Alligator Alcatraz” on social media last week. The chosen site is a long airstrip that was built as part of a massive project abandoned in 1970 amid environmental opposition.
By Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said it had signed off on a plan to house up to 5,000 people in Florida who are either arrested by state law enforcement or brought to detention centers by federal immigration authorities. DHS said in a statement that it planned to tap into a Federal Emergency Management Agency shelter program to reimburse the state the estimated $450 million a year it will cost to run the remote detention centers.
LOL. Have fun there, illegals.
Mr Teach
Why isn’t Trump arresting any of those 30,000 migrants gang members that you told us were here?
Are they going to be allowed to remain here to simply stroke fear against all the undocumented ?
Looks like more stories of “things that didn’t happen”. “Journalists” love making stuff up to support their narrative.
Mr teach types:
Such as… Archer-Daniels-Midland, Tyson, Land O Lakes, Simplot, Bunge, Conagra, Cargill, Subway, McDonalds, JBS, PepsiCo, Chili’s, Taco Bell, Marriott, Hyatt, Corteva, Wyndham, Trump Golf Inc, Smithfield…
But trump goes after the little guys. It’s easier and the “worst of the worst” fight back. And it’s more cruel that way.
DHS to Hispanic-looking persons: Don’t run from ‘burly’ white men wearing masks without badges or any ID. Just let them slam you to the ground, pummel your head, zip tie you and throw you into an unmarked black van. Relax. If you end up in an El Salvador prison, it’s for your own good. And your kids will be OK.
The angered Mr Dowd wrote:
Yup, them too! Start taking some corporations to court!
Actually, DHS to Hispanic-looking persons: if you are here illegally, get your stuff together and leave on your own! Don’t create a deportation record, but head south of the border, and then apply to come to the United States legally!
If you nincompoops had supported enforcement of our immigration laws, we wouldn’t have so many illegals in the country, and, without his signature issue, Donald Trump would (probably) not be President today.
You guys scream about enforcing the law, at least when it came to the Capitol kerfufflers, but you wouldn’t enforce our immigration laws, don’t want to enforce our criminal laws when so many of the bad guys are black, elect George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police hating prosecutors, and you are shocked, shocked! that there’s a backlash from real Americans.
The nincompoopy Mr Dana wants Mr trump to take the corporations, companies, farmmers and small business owners to task for hiring undocumented workers! Nice talk, but it just doesn’t happen. Why won’t DHS arrest and DOJ indict the business executives? If they have hired even one undocumented employee they should go to jail, right?
The angered Mr Dana whines that Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, W Bush, Obama, Trump45 and Biden refused to enforce immigration laws. And although violent crime has DECREASED dramatically since the Reagan peak, he still whines about “the blacks”!
Finally, the angry, nincompoop Mr Dana claims to be a “real American” dismissing all those Americans who disagree with his bigotry. Reality check: “The blacks”, women, LGBTQs, Hispanics, atheists, Democrats, liberals, Lutherans, Jews, Muslims, the disabled, the tired, poor, huddled masses, wretched refuse, the homeless, the unemployed, in fact, every citizen, is a “real American”. The shocked Mr Dana probably believes the felonious Mr trump is one of his “real Americans”.
Mr Dana has made clear that he’s a proud white, christian nationalist who is anti-LGBTQ, anti-women’s rights, anti-abortion, who feels white, christian, wealthy, straight men deserve to rule; and we understand and believe that, in America, it takes all kinds.
Have a nice day!
Dana
Why would they bother to deport themselves
And really when they will not be allowed to return?
The average length of time an undocumented person has been in the USA is 10 years.
Social Security was formulated with a constantly growing population. That is no longer happening, especially with the white cohort. Our population demographics should look like a pyramid with a large base. Now it is upside down with few younger workers being expected to support the increasing number of old people. We NEED those “military aged men” they are hard workers. Who will replace them in the ag fields or construction sites? You? Teach?? Posters collecting disability?