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This article speaks of the negative impact that President Trump’s new immigration reforms can and will have on the American workforce, business owners, and citizens of society as a whole. Specifically, this article focuses on Trump’s decision to have tens of thousands of Haitians, Salvadorians, and Hondurans leave the country by terminating their legality and in consequence, their work permits. Large percentages, as much as twenty to thirty percent, of workers in many fields would be terminated and their labor useless. Business owners would then struggle to keep production going and clients happy. The author of the article even wrote, “Construction companies already confronting a nationwide labor shortage will have to replace workers from what industry executives said was a minuscule pool, or turn down projects.” When business owners have to turn down projects due to lack of labor workers, their ability to profit and grow is denied. There are available jobs, why not allow those who want to work to take them? This would as a whole lower Social Security, Medicare and the overall gross domestic product. This decision would be destructive to the American society as a whole. Let’s put our stereotypes and egos aside, and do what’s right in this situation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/immigrant-work-force-salvadorans-haitians.html