The number of immigrants living in the U.S. is declining for the first time in 50 years, reports Maya Yang in The Guardian.

Yang cites a Pew Research Center study finding that the immigrant population fell to 51.9 million people from 53.3 million in January. The study also finds that 750,000 immigrants have left the labor force since January, Yang reports.

This decline could have lasting effects on the job market, reports Paul Kiernan of The Wall Street Journal.

According to experts and data, immigrants now drive most of the growth in both the American population and the labor force which could lead to serious challenges for the economy. The last time annual net immigration remained low, it was back in the 1960s when the conditions of the U.S. population were different with the baby boomer generation, Kiernan notes.

In an op-ed for The New York Times, the Speaker of the California State Assembly Robert Rivas and California Farm Bureau president Shannon Douglass write on how the decline in immigrant workers is a serious threat to America’s food supply chain.

“For Americans already struggling with high prices, anything that can add to their grocery bill will be felt, but the impact of immigration enforcement doesn’t stop at the supermarket checkout line,” they write. “Farms and ranches support hundreds of thousands of American jobs in food processing, packing, transportation, logistics, equipment supply and more.”

Rivas and Douglass urge President Trump and Congress to work toward a “humane, practical and bipartisan solution” to protect American agriculture.

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