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00:00Oscar Garcia-Santello owns a Mexican restaurant in Houston, Texas.
00:05His business is suffering because of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
00:11He says sales have dropped by approximately 40 percent.
00:15There's an apartment complex nearby where about a month ago ICE was there for a whole
00:23week doing detention raids.
00:25Between that week and the week after, we had practically no sales.
00:32Spanish speakers and Latinos are often the targets of ICE raids.
00:36It is creating an atmosphere of fear in which even some employees are choosing to stay home.
00:43People were obviously afraid.
00:45In fact, an employee who lives in that complex, she didn't show up here all week.
00:51According to the Texas Restaurant Association, it is an industry-wide problem.
00:55We asked restaurants all across the state, how are these immigration enforcement actions
01:01impacting your business?
01:03Twenty-three percent said they've lost employees.
01:06Twenty-one percent said they're seeing fewer job applicants or fewer people accept job offers.
01:12The association has joined together with nearly a thousand different restaurant and hospitality
01:17leaders from all 50 U.S. states.
01:19They are urging the U.S. president to create temporary permits for taxpaying immigrant workers
01:25throughout America's food pipeline.
01:27We don't have enough workers in restaurants and farms and ranches and meatpacking plants,
01:33basically every single step of our food chain.
01:36And as a result, all Americans are paying a lot more for the food that they consume from
01:41grocery stores and from restaurants.
01:45In Texas alone, nearly a quarter of all restaurant workers are immigrants, powering the industry
01:51that adds $138 billion to the state's economy.
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