The number of working-age immigrants living in Oregon has dropped by nearly a third in the last five years. This has resulted in labor shortages in this state. A situation that has progressively been taking place in the rest of the American Union.
This phenomenon is largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in force since the beginning of 2020. Although the trend began in 2017, with the measures imposed by the Trump administration aimed at stopping the entry of migrants through the southern border.
The labor shortage in numbers
There were about 300,000 active immigrant workers in this northwestern state in 2017. Foreign nationals between the ages of 25 and 54, according to data compiled by the Oregon Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Currently this figure has been reduced to just over 200,000. Which translates into around 100,000 vacancies, most of these in agricultural, manufacturing and hospitality companies.
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