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Immigrant workers in Virginia


According to the American Immigration Council, 17 percent of workers in Virginia are immigrants. Immigrant workers were most numerous in the following industries: Industry


Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Accommodation and Food Services Retail Trade


Health Care and Social Assistance Construction


Number of Immigrant Workers 89,022 84,071 82,410 81,905 77,417


Analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey 1-year PUMS data by the American Immigration Council.


visitors to the country to help the Border Patrol and DHS agents determine who has overstayed their tourism, student- or temporary-work visas. The law would also mandate that all U.S. employers use the free, E-Verify online screening tool to determine whether potential employees can legally work in the United States. Last October, the American Immi-


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gration Council released a report claiming that 12 percent of Virginia’s residents are foreign born, 17 percent of the com- monwealth’s workers are immigrants, and foreign-born entrepreneurs account for more than 20 percent of the state’s self- employed business owners. The report also said immigrants “represent more than a fifth of Virginians working in the com- puter and math sciences.” In a letter to the DHS co-signed by


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23 Democratic U.S. senators, Virginia’s Mark Warner and Tim Kaine said that ending the TPS benefit for tax-paying, business-owning Salvadorans would not only hurt current U.S. foreign and economic development policy in Central America aimed at reducing illegal immi- gration to the United States but also cut more than $100 billion from the U.S. economy during the next 10 years as well as “billions of dollars in Social Security and Medicare contributions.” “The renewal of El Salvador’s


Plus over 80 additional investors.


TPS designation has received strong support from leaders in both business and labor, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU [Service Employees International Union],” the senators wrote. “Ending TPS protections for El Salvador will needlessly push nearly 200,000 hard- working immigrants into the shadows, hurting employers in industries across our economy.” Estimates of how much the U.S.


economy may be hurt by ending the TPS program for just three countries — El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras — vary widely. The Center for American Prog- ress says the loss will be more than $160 billion over the course of 10 years. Another group, the Immigrant Legal


Resource Center (ILRC), says the U.S. economy might shrink by just $45 billion in that same period without the eco- nomic contributions from those workers


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