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Major industries like construction, child care and restaurants rely heavily on undocumented workers, who would be hard to replace, economists and employers say.

By Ginia Bellafante

Ginia Bellafante writes the Chronicle of Big City, a weekly observation about the politics, culture and life of New York.

When the immigration raids began in New York City this week, with a stop from the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who appeared in the throat frame talking about “pulling the bags out of the dirt,” it’s hard to see where all those raids were headed.

At the beginning of Trump’s time, it was not clear to what extent this type of force amounted to a functionality of authority instead of an expression of commitment to him. On Tuesday, 39 arrests were made in and around New York City, where the concentrate has been aimed at gang members and other suspected violence, and where the economy is also based on the hard work of undocumented staff, already that plants are in sunlight. Divide the perspective of mass eviction, the eviction of the personnel that are not murderers or rapists or rapists or drug traffickers or in a different way: the consequences for the New York economy can be quite serious.

A recent political rhetoric has controlled to be undoubtedly, undoubtedly motivated other people than a contribution, which darkens safe realities. As a group, undocumented immigrants paid $ 3. 1 billion in New York State taxes in 2022, for example, an amount equivalent to the city’s primary education budget for training in the training course.

This number does not come from a leftist human rights organization that made us a mind to announce the sympathy of other people who have crossed the border illegally, however, rather, of the Wobbly Tax and Economic Institute of Tax Policy, an image organization of an image Reflected, not a Washington room. The studies of the organization also indicate that at the national level, more than the third of the taxes paid through undocumented immigrants go to salary taxes, whose objective is the rights systems that this personnel have no right of access.

Some other facts: In New York City, according to municipal data, more than half of undocumented immigrants have been in this country for more than a decade; 41 percent have been to college, and a quarter have a bachelor’s degree. Last year, a report from the mayor’s office looking at immigrant demographics found that 80 percent of undocumented residents were in the work force, compared with two-thirds of New Yorkers born in this country — in part because most immigrants are of prime working age, between 18 and 64. (This is especially meaningful because the city’s population is getting older: Between 2000 to 2023, the share of people who are 65 and over grew by 53 percent, 17 times faster than the population overall.)

Food and Eating Place corporations are a category in which a loss of personnel would feel intensely. According to a new report from the Fiscal Policy Institute, some other groups of non -partisan studies, more than 42,000 chefs, chefs, preparers and paintings of Waiters throughout the state, not to mention the delivery personnel that makes the culture insatiable in the Call of the imaginable city.

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