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The Real Cost of Trump's ICE Raids Nobody's Talking About
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8:33Now PlayingMartin Ordóñez, owner of Restaurante y Tortillería Guatemalteco in New Bedford, Massachusetts, has watched his revenue drop 35% since Trump's mass deportation campaign began. Down the street, Tony Cabrera of Taqueria La Raza is down 50%.
A new U.S. Senate Committee report puts a hard dollar figure on their reality: Trump's ICE sweeps have already wiped out over $140 million in small business revenue across just three American cities.
The Senate Committee receipt is itemized and undeniable. Dine-in restaurant sales in Chicago fell 60% during Operation Midway Blitz. Minneapolis small businesses lost $81 million after Operation Metro Surge. Orange County lost $58.9 million in economic output over eight weeks — including $4.5 million in local sales tax that should have funded schools and public services. These are not anecdotes. They are documented, federal-level receipts for a policy that the administration sold as targeting dangerous criminals but which, by its own data, arrested nursing assistants, dishwashers, and construction workers at a rate of 98% non-violent in Massachusetts alone.
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