{"id":477248,"date":"2026-10-26T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:18:08","slug":"sylvia-garcia-hakeem-jeffries-to-discuss-ice-enforcements-impact-on-houston-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477248\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Garcia, Hakeem Jeffries to discuss ICE enforcement\u2019s impact on Houston economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries are expected to discuss how federal immigration enforcement is affecting Houston workers, small businesses and families during a news conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The 12:45 p.m. news conference follows a roundtable with Houston workers, business owners and community leaders focused on the economic effects of the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation efforts, according to an announcement from Garcia\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Garcia, who represents Texas\u2019 29th Congressional District, and Jeffries, who represents New York\u2019s 8th Congressional District, are expected to address concerns about the impact of immigration enforcement on the city\u2019s workforce, small businesses and cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The discussion is also expected to focus on fear and uncertainty among families and communities across the Houston region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Elsa Flores, president of SEIU Texas, is also scheduled to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The event is being promoted by Democratic leaders as a discussion of the economic impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries are expected to discuss how federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16850,56,58,57,161262,161261,13542],"class_list":["post-477248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-workforce-immigration","tag-seiu-texas-immigration","tag-sylvia-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}