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Trump immigration clampdown may threaten Americans' jobs, wages, economists say

Honduran caravan members look through a fence at the US-Mexico border in San Ysidro, California in November 2018.

The 20-year-old San Diego bakery Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe went out of business this month after an audit by US authorities found immigrants working there illegally.

In April, a small Nebraska town lost a potato processing plant, and the local revenue it generated, in the wake of an immigration raid on its facilities. A restaurant in New York appears to have suffered a similar fate in August.

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