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The nation's exceptional institutions of higher learning and the world's best and brightest in science, medicine, technology, and other disciplines that they had attracted are not the only targets of Trumpery. The blowhard's rabid xenophobia will damage America's economy on multiple levels - beyond self-inflicted tariffs. E,g.,
When federal agents raided Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Neb., last Tuesday, they arrested about 75 of the meat processor’s workers, roughly half of the production line. The following day, the plant was operating at about 15% of capacity, and a skeleton crew strained to fill orders.
Chief Executive Gary Rohwer can’t see a future that doesn’t include immigrant workers. “Without them, there wouldn’t be an industry,” he said.
Trump’s aggressive deportation push has slammed into an economic reality: Key industries in the U.S. rely heavily on workers living in the U.S. illegally, many of them for decades.
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