{"id":66678,"date":"2026-02-18T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/trumps-immigration-siege-is-rattling-hospitality-industry-workers-say\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:58:59","slug":"trumps-immigration-siege-is-rattling-hospitality-industry-workers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/trumps-immigration-siege-is-rattling-hospitality-industry-workers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unite Here, the US\u2019s largest hospitality workers\u2019 union, says ICE crackdown is harming tourism and costing jobs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s immigration policies are having a chilling effect on the hospitality industry, where nearly a third of workers are immigrants, according to the largest hospitality union in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The number of employed hospitality workers dropped by 98,000 from December 2024 to December 2025, according to a report from Unite Here, which represents 300,000 workers across the hospitality, food and tourism industries in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/18\/trump-immigration-hospitality-ice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite Here, the US\u2019s largest hospitality workers\u2019 union, says ICE crackdown is harming tourism and costing jobs Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policies are having a chilling effect on the hospitality industry, where nearly a third of workers are immigrants, according to the largest hospitality union in the US. The number of employed hospitality workers dropped by &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/trumps-immigration-siege-is-rattling-hospitality-industry-workers-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}