Good morning from the Financial Times.

It's Monday, April 6th, and today we're changing things up just a little bit.

We're going deep into America's immigration debate to explore how months of raids, arrests, and fear are weighing on the U.S. economy.

It has had a bit of a chilling effect on certain sectors, definitely.

Agriculture, construction, hospitality, and of course that will filter down into the numbers.

I'm Victoria Craig, and this is your FT News briefing.

Hours after taking the oath of office on January 20th last year, U.S. President Donald Trump sat behind the resolute desk in the White House. It was covered with dozens of executive orders that he signed over the

course of an hour as the press looked on. One of the first he was handed by Will Scharf,

an assistant to the president, was called Protecting the American People Against Invasion.

This is a proclamation guaranteeing the state's protection against invasion based on the

current crisis of the southern border.

It invokes various executive powers relating to the...

In the nearly year and a half since the president inked his signature on that proclamation, the U.S. has been rocked by controversy.

Some Americans have been outraged by the tactics officers from immigration and customs enforcement or ICE have used

to carry out that executive order.

Thank you very much.

We have a very disturbing video out of Queens.

Federal agents are seen entering a family's home with guns drawn.

...and rob that early morning arrest playing out on a quiet residential block in full view of neighbors.

The partner of the man who was arrested maintains he has no criminal record and has lived and worked in Elgin for more than a day.

Now, Ring surveillance video shows more than a dozen armed federal agents descending on a Burnsville home on Saturday.

A woman who lives there tells Fox 9, multiple Latino people who rent rooms there were arrested by

...