WASHINGTON ¨C As U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s immigration crackdown expands across the United States with more than 1,000 arrests per day, some workers are starting to wonder if they should keep reporting to their job sites.
Such a response could exacerbate a housing affordability crisis that experts say needs to be fixed in part by speeding up construction, and worsen a labor shortage that already threatens to delay homebuilding and raise prices.
¡°We definitely are hearing hesitation,¡± said Palmira Figueroa, a long-time labor activist and communications coordinator with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
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