As the U.S. garment industry faces the heat with raids and subsequent arrests conducted by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, told Apparel Resources that she fears a large decline in domestic garment production.
Factories have reported delayed shipments and reduction in production in the wake of raids. Such a crackdown has shaken the USA’s garment, apparel and fashion industry as a whole. In this regard, Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, feared a large decline in garment production in the USA, in the absence of immigrant workers. She also mentioned that replacement of these workers would be very difficult as garment manufacturing by the US population is deemed unglamorous and their preference lies in the fashion field.
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