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What America might look like with zero immigration

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While it is not clear yet what new changes under President Trump will mean for America, a past era of immigration crackdowns contains some lessons.

US immigration agents and federal officers detaining a migrant as he walks out from a hearing at an immigration court in Manhattan, New York City, on Oct 27.

PHOTO: REUTERS

Lydia DePillis and Campbell Robertson

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Across the United States, someone is missing.

One year into President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas. A neighbourhood soccer league in Memphis, Tennessee, cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.

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