Our progressive newsies are playing advocate once again . . .
Something that most newsies always miss in this conversation, in 2025 MOST Latinos aren't "newcomers" at all.
Meanwhile . . . Check this local outlet attempting to play "Moses of the barrio" . .
In Missouri, Hispanic workers make up 5.3% of the labor force, according to 2021 data from the Census Bureau.
When the workforce does not feel safe or integrated, economies suffer, Corinne Valdivia said. Valdivia is a University of Missouri researcher who studied Latino immigrants in the rural Midwest in 2015.
Part of the study focused on the “sustainable livelihoods framework,” a concept that relates a community’s well-being to its work productivity. The study showed how Latinos, as newcomers to rural communities, faced the challenge of being accepted, especially as they encountered microaggressions and discrimination. This did not stop them from holding jobs, but it did exclude them from comfortably adapting to the larger economic system.
“Basically, the community climate that is negative towards newcomers or immigrants has a negative effect on their participation in the economy,” Valdivia said in an email.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Missouri's local economies are paying the price of immigration enforcement fears
Immigration enforcement rumors circulating on social media are terrifying people - and that's hurting businesses. In Missouri, Hispanic workers make up 5.3% of the labor force.
Related coverage from Kansas . . .
Despite profiling concerns, more law agencies are joining street-level immigration enforcement
Mar. 5-As the Trump administration seeks more partners to help round up immigrants living in the United States illegally, some states and cities are eager to step up, despite risks of racial profiling. Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and even Arizona's Democratic governor are pursuing statewide plans to help find immigrants for possible deportation.
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