New York state has 670,000 undocumented immigrant residents, including 42,300 undocumented restaurant workers and 48,500 undocumented construction workers, according to a stunning report released Thursday. Included.
A report from the liberal-leaning Fiscal Policy Institute reveals an underground economy of immigrant workers in the Empire State. The country's 1.8 million residents are noncitizens, including some green card holders.
There are a total of 4.5 million foreign-born residents in the state. The report said:.
Data from the report, released as President Trump vows to crack down on illegal immigration, reveals:
- An estimated 51,200 undocumented immigrants work in the personal care industry, including 20,900 maids and housekeepers, 16,800 home health aides, 7,000 childcare workers, and 6,500 personal care workers. Be a care assistant.
- Approximately 42,300 restaurant workers are believed to be in the country illegally, including 7,000 chefs, 17,000 cooks, 9,100 kitchen staff, and 9,200 waiters.
- An additional 48,500 undocumented workers are employed in the construction industry: 29,500 laborers, 12,800 carpenters, and 6,200 painters.
- More than half of U.S. crop workers are foreign-born, and the majority work here either illegally or enrolled in the employer-sponsored federal H-2A program.
The institute is concerned that the Trump administration's mass deportations will have a “devastating impact” on the state's economy.
And the report warned that noncitizens who are here legally are also being targeted as President Trump looks to restrict legal immigration and close borders.
“The most vulnerable migrants are those in the country illegally,” the group said in its report.
“But the impact goes beyond that.
“People with temporary visas may have their visas terminated or not renewed,” the report claims.
“Temporarily Protected Persons, Asylum Seekers, DACA [Deferred Action for Child Arrivals] Recipients and many others are also in a precarious position. ”
A large-scale raid could disrupt and cripple key industries, and would have ripple effects on New York's economy and communities, the report said.
Layoffs of crop workers could lead to the closure of dairy farms and fruit and vegetable farms in the northern part of the state, where agriculture is a top industry, including the growing wine sector, the institute said.
“Excluding immigrants from agricultural work is almost unimaginable, and reducing the number of migrant workers by even 5 to 10 percent would have dramatic negative effects,” the report concludes.
But supporters of stricter immigration policies dismissed the economic doomsday narrative, saying a large number of undocumented workers could drive down wages across the board.
“New York's labor market will take time to adjust to the sudden drop in immigration, but it will adapt,” Jason Richwine, a resident researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in a column for the Post.
Richwine said employers and government officials will be forced to focus on hiring struggling Native American workers. Companies may be forced to offer more competitive wages.
“Reducing illegal immigration would save New York state taxpayers some of the money they would otherwise have to contribute to federal programs like Medicaid and the state's various welfare benefits,” Richwine said. .
The report counters that illegal immigrants and noncitizens are a net positive, not a negative, for New York or the United States.
The report says illegal immigrants paid an estimated $3.1 billion in state and local taxes in 2022.
Additionally, the report said, the influx of refugees has helped revitalize and reverse population declines in northern cities such as Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica and Albany.
“State and city leaders must oppose implementation of deportation policies that could have a devastating impact on New York’s immigrant communities and economy,” said Nathan Gusdorf, director of the Fiscal Policy Institute. Ta.
“In addition to the human costs, these policies could remove hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the workforce, leaving New Yorkers without access to essential services like child care and home care, and creating historic Construction costs may rise amid a housing shortage.”
New York State has adopted measures to support illegal immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic, including creating a $2.1 billion Excluded Labor Fund to assist undocumented unemployed workers who do not qualify for unemployment insurance. has been forced to set aside billions of dollars to support the United States.
New York City and Albany have also spent billions of dollars to assist more than 200,000 migrants arriving from the southern border starting in 2022.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's $252 billion spending plan announced Tuesday says there are 471,000 undocumented workers in New York state, which has a total population of just under 20 million people as of the latest census estimates. It is estimated.
The report estimates that of the total population, there are 68,000 people in New York with temporary protected status seeking asylum from countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. There are also 21,000 active DACA recipients and 62,000 asylum seekers currently in New York City-funded shelters.
According to the institute, 215,000 people have passed through the city's processing system since spring 2022.
The effects of President Trump's stricter policies are already being felt, immigration advocates said.
“Immigration is an essential part of New York, and it's no surprise that the policies proposed by the Trump administration would have a dramatic impact on the state,” said David Dessegall Kallick, director of the Immigration Research Initiative. Ta.
“There are already heartbreaking stories of migrants being separated from their families and communities, and these separations will have a negative impact on all of us.”
