Across the Texas workforce, 20% of firms surveyed by the Dallas Fed said immigration policy has already hampered or will hamper both the hiring and retention of immigrant workers this year.
Amid existing staffing shortages, immigration crackdown threatens long-term health care.
President Donald Trump is ending a program that’s allowed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants to live and work in the U.S.
It lets people get work permits and protects them from deportation. The status does not offer a path to citizenship.
They argue that an executive order ending their temporary protected status could hurt the state’s economy.
