After ICE Raid, A Shortage Of Welders at Texas Assembly Plant
TIGERTOWN, TX—With new enforcement priorities under the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are taking aim at employers that knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants. The most recent — and largest — bust happened at a trailer manufacturing plant here.
Business had been booming at Load Trail LLC, which makes steel trailers. Then came the ICE raid in late August. Now, the company’s production floor is nearly half-empty because of an acute shortage of welders, according to a report produced by National Public Radio.