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President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown is exposing just how dependent some U.S. industries have become on employing illegal immigrants.

After years of looking the other way, the federal government under Trump is cracking down on illegal immigration. Now, many employers in the agriculture, construction and hospitality sectors who built their business models on cheap, unauthorized labor are feeling the pain, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Worksite enforcement has picked up significantly in recent months. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now averaging over 1,600 daily arrests, though immigration hardliners in the administration, such as Trump advisor Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, have reportedly called for 3,000 arrests. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Fmr ICE Chief Says Democrats Working Overtime To ‘Obstruct’ Law Enforcement)

Heightened immigration enforcement and the growing presence of ICE agents are hitting the agricultural industry particularly hard, where an estimated 42% of workers lack legal status, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) own data.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told Bloomberg that some illegal immigrant laborers have stopped reporting to dairy farms out of fear of arrest, and even some legal workers are staying away out of concern for being questioned or caught up in the raids.

“Those cows, they have to be milked every eight hours, so if milkhands are

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