migrants outside of city limits. but miguel marquez has we talking to people all over the country who want and need immigrants in their communities. so, miguel, tell us where these communities are and what are they saying to you. for all the chaos on the border, the reality is is that this country needs more migrants, more immigrant labor. so, if you look at the midwest, mainly ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, minnesota there is enormous need for workers they are. and a lot of these places mahoning valley, youngstown, this was a place that was hit so hard when manufacturing went away. they are now projecting that they are going to need 20,000 workers in the next ten years or so. and it s in unskilled but also skilled workers they re looking for and one of the things they re doing is going to the immigrant community, migrant community, and trying to find workers there, advertising for workers both overseas and people who may be here. now the problem with all of this is
Activist Luis Valentan battles from a Pasadena radio booth against wage theft, verbal abuse and other ways that immigrant day laborers are exploited. So does his masked wrestler alter ego.
front seat of the car from which he was tackled at the sheriff s substation where that footage we brought you yesterday showed him being taken to the ground. in that note, he describes the shootings in a matter of fact way and asks his wife to take care of their adult child living in china. beyond that, lindsey, we re looking at what the authorities are doing here to try and pick up the pieces for the victims families. as you know, these were all migrant laborers, a mix of latino and asian laborers that were killed in this case, and that makes, of course, the help that they need sort of difficult to provide. we just got off the phone with county officials who tell us that they will provide mental health services, food, shelter and some wage reimbursement to basically keep these families on their feet as long as needed. so we have here the combination of immigrant labor which is such an important part of how california puts food on the table and gun violence coming
single time last been a disaster. one thing that s really changed, i think, in the last, you know, two, three years under of in the trumpian gop is the decline of the power of the business lobby specifically the chamber of commerce. they historically have been a really strong voice for actually trying to figure out a way to bring immigrant labor of all skill levels into the united states and it was a factor that allowed some republicans in the past to get on board with some of these compromises and that has really changed in a populist republican party. if you think about the way ron desantis talks about the business community for example it s just completely different than it used to be so it s even harder to figure out how the constituencies would come together to make something like this happen. at the white house the policy options are difficult and trying to thread a lot of needles but has tone changed? early on they were look pushback. it s just the republicans or it s just fox