A Minneapolis Fed report details how much Trump’s immigration crackdown hurt businesses and workers: ‘There are not any people to hire’

If President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota was like a military campaign, then a new report from the Minneapolis Fed reads like a battle-damage assessment.

The bank—which covers Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, as well as parts of Wisconsin and Michigan—issued one of its periodic Beige Book reports on business and economic conditions on Wednesday.

Like a war, the surge of federal agents to Minneapolis came with a name: Operation Metro Surge. It started in early December...