Susan Rice

U.S.

citizens who may look like me or look Latino and who are afraid to go into work.

You have customers that are afraid to go patronize places that they were accustomed to patronizing.

You have, you know, all kinds of suppliers to these businesses in the same boat.

I mean, I think I heard a statistic this morning, actually, where Minneapolis is losing 10 to 15 million dollars a week in business.

And it's probably much more than that.

Yeah.

because it's shutting down everything.

So it's incredibly bad for the economy.

Our agricultural economy depends enormously on immigrant labor, again, many of whom are here on

you know, temporary work permits that allow them to do agricultural work.

You're from Maine, Tim.

I'm very familiar with Maine.

I've got family ties to Maine.

And, you know, I know throughout New England, but also in other places that have a seasonal economy, you know, so many of the seasonal workers are, you know, people coming in again on temporary work permits from, you know,

Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, all over the place, doing, you know, cleaning hotel rooms and serving in restaurants and doing all the things that the seasonal economy requires.

And, you know, they too are, you know, the number of visas being issued to them are down.

The risk of coming to the U.S.

is now much higher.

You know, Canadians are boycotting our country in droves, which affects not just border states, but, you know, you know, snowbird states.