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Jun 2025
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Deportations Could Upend This Parachute ...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & GIMLET
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A special immigration status helped Mills Manufacturing, which makes parachutes for the U.S. military, keep its workforce fully staffed. But last week, an order from the Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to revoke temporary protections for about 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua. WSJ’s Ruth Simon explains why companie ... Show More
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