Businesses are seeing a slump statewide and across industries, from flea markets and retail shops to restaurants.
Researchers interviewed businesses up and down California and say the San Joaquin Valley and Bay Area, along with Los Angeles and the Inland Empire in the Southland, would see the greatest impacts.
“Business has been going not-so-well ever since the ICE raids started. Less and less people have been coming. They’ve been scared to come out of their homes,” said Angela Aguilera, a Merced business owner…