Your job and the effect of “closing the border”

[Anonymous]

Posting here because it’s mostly about the job aspect.
If you work in a field where you see a lot of immigrants who came via the southern border, did the situation at the border affect your job?
Maybe you are a caseworker and see fewer SNAP cases. Maybe you are an ESL teacher and there’s a drop in newcomer students?
Just curious if it’s felt on any everyday level.
The district I work for seems to have shut down “newcomer classrooms” that were set up at every school, to provide ESL instruction specifically to students who just arrived. Regular ESL is still in place though.

[Anonymous]

I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

☆chilling effect☆

[Anonymous]

Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

I think people without work permits used to register LLCs and get paid through them somehow. Now this loophole is closed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

There is no job in America that is majority undocumented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

It’s silly to believe that Americans are so different from the rest of the world that they’d rather stick to the food pantries and sleeping in their cars than get a manual job that pays a living wage. I am old enough to remember when people working in construction or retail were middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

I would assume a slowdown in the creation of small businesses has more to do with the slowing economy than immigration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

It’s silly to believe that Americans are so different from the rest of the world that they’d rather stick to the food pantries and sleeping in their cars than get a manual job that pays a living wage. I am old enough to remember when people working in construction or retail were middle class.

Project 2025 has factory wages at less than $2 an hour. With zero benefits.
I hope MAGA gets these jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

I would assume a slowdown in the creation of small businesses has more to do with the slowing economy than immigration.

Yes, I'm sure that's a big part of it but my neighborhood and clients are almost all Latinos!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

Haitians moved to a small town in Ohio for work. Why wouldn't West Virginians?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

It’s silly to believe that Americans are so different from the rest of the world that they’d rather stick to the food pantries and sleeping in their cars than get a manual job that pays a living wage. I am old enough to remember when people working in construction or retail were middle class.

Americans don’t want these jobs because they don’t pay a living wage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s not my business but my landscaper told me he has to raise his prices a bit AND cut a couple of his guys because he knows he will lose like 20% of his business.

It’s so silly to believe that there are Americans sitting around waiting to do back-breaking labor like meat packing or landscaping or picking tomatoes…or insert manual job here.

There is also a huge mismatch of where unemployed Americans reside and where say landscaping jobs are. They don’t need landscapers in the poor parts of WV with high unemployment.

It’s silly to believe that Americans are so different from the rest of the world that they’d rather stick to the food pantries and sleeping in their cars than get a manual job that pays a living wage. I am old enough to remember when people working in construction or retail were middle class.

Manual laborers in most countries can't afford cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

I think people without work permits used to register LLCs and get paid through them somehow. Now this loophole is closed

Maybe, but they pay taxes and create jobs too. That's closed too now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I help small businesses start up, and there's been a huge drop in business registrations. I also get them set up to pay their taxes and payroll. I don't check the immigration status of my clients, but I'm sure this has a coming effect on small business and hiring.

I think people without work permits used to register LLCs and get paid through them somehow. Now this loophole is closed

Maybe, but they pay taxes and create jobs too. That's closed too now.

If America had a functioning immigration system, the small business owners that pay taxes and employ members of the community are exactly the people who should get citizenship. I'm moving to another country, and my pathway to citizenship is exactly that. They actually want American entrepreneurial energy over there!