Texas Firms Hit by Immigration Crackdown Add Hours, Raise Wages

Businesses in Texas that face a labor squeeze from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown are responding by offering more hours to existing employees and increasing wages and benefits, according to a survey published Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Some 13% of Texas executives in the survey said that immigration shifts are impacting their ability to hire and retain foreign-born workers, with an additional 7% expecting that to happen later this year, the Dallas Fed found.

In response, nearly half of the firms that reported a current impact are increasing hours for existing employees and almost 40% ...