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How 'Made in USA' will unravel without immigrants

Even as Washington pushes tariffs and ‘Made in USA’ campaigns to revive domestic manufacturing, its aggressive immigration enforcement is currently gutting the workforce that keeps many factories running.

For decades, immigrant labour—documented and undocumented—has been the invisible thread holding American apparel together. Now, as ICE raids empty workshops and tariffs strangle supply chains, the industry faces a reckoning. The question is not whether the US wants to manufacture clothes domestically—it is whether it is willing to keep the workers who make it possible.