US workers say Trump’s immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages: ‘A strain on everybody’

As Trump moves to strip over 1 million immigrants of legal status, factories grapple with slowdowns, say employees

Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to leave their jobs.

As economists warn the administration's full-scale deportation ambitions could ultimately cost millions of jobs, workers at two sites - in Michigan and Kentucky - told the Guardian that industrial giants are grappling with labor shortages.