Sudden Departures of People in Critical Jobs Leave Companies With Holes

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In recent months, immigrants working in manufacturing, food production and other industries have lost their jobs due to President Trump's immigration policies — not as a result of immigration raids, but because Trump ended Biden-era programs that had provided them temporary permission to remain in the U.S. and get jobs.

Those affected include more than a half-million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who had been granted humanitarian parole for two years through a program known as CHNV — an acronym for the countries it covered. The changes also affect close to 1 million immigrants who were allowed into the U.S. after securing appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border via a U.S. government app.

See where things stand now but here's one important statement:  "The people is not illegal," [Michel Ange Lucas, who builds refrigerators for GE Appliances] says. "Politics made them illegal. But they was never illegal."