The new EPI data reveal just how vital immigrant workers are to Minnesota’s economic stability. Foreign-born workers power the core industries that keep our state running: the construction trades, manufacturing, healthcare and caregiving, agriculture, and hospitality. Immigrant households generate billions of dollars in income each year, dollars funneled directly back into local businesses. Immigrant workers contribute hundreds of millions of dollars annually in state and local taxes. These are tax dollars that pave our roads, fund our public schools, and support the services on which all Minnesotans rely.

Yet Trump and his corporate-backed allies insist on escalating their mass-deportation agenda. For Minnesota, that agenda spells economic ruin. Our state already faces serious structural workforce pressures. Our population is aging rapidly; and an entire generation of skilled union tradespeople, healthcare workers, and educators is nearing retirement. Ripping tens of thousands of immigrant workers out of Minnesota would shatter workplaces, close local businesses, and leave hospitals and nursing homes dangerously understaffed. In fact, EPI projects that mass deportation would destroy tens of thousands of jobs statewide, including thousands held by U.S.-born workers whose jobs depend on fully staffed, functioning workplaces.