WEBVTT >> WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRE'S BUSINESS. I'M FREED FRED KOCHER. HOW MUCH DO BUSINESSES DEPEND ONIMMIGRANTS. FIRST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, IMMIGRATION FACT 2015, 75,000 FOREIGN-BORN RESIDENT. 6% OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE POPULATION, 62% ENROLLED IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, 8% ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. NOW, FOREIGN-BORN, WHAT COUNTRIES, WHAT PARTS OF THE WORLD? ASIA 34%. EUROPE 25%. LATIN AMERICA, 21%. CANADA 14% AND AFRICA 6%. WHERE HAVE THEY SETTLED. MANCHESTER, SEA COAST AREA 4. SALEM ROCKINGHAM COUNTY 4 AND CONCORD HAS BEGUN TO SEE AN INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS SINCE 2014.WITH ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS, TWO PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE SUBJECT VERYWELL. TRACY HATCH, WHO IS PRESIDENT OFTHE GREATER NASHUA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AND FROM THE LAWSON LAW FIRM ANDGLOBAL LAW FIRM, GLOBAL, BECAUSEYOU HAVE AN OFFICE IN PARIS AS WELL AS NEW HAMPSHIRE AND YOU SPECIALIZE IN IMMIGRATION.>> THANK YOU.>> IS THE POPULATION GROWING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE POLICIES PUT IN PLACE IN THELAST FEW IN THIS COUNTRY?>> I THINK THE POPULATION HAS BEEN GROWING AND THERE'S A CONCERN THAT IT'S GOING TO FLATTEN BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES AND POLICIES THAT ARE BEING PUT INTOPLACE AND THAT HAS A NEGATIVE IMPACT FOR OUR BUSINESSES IN NEWHAMPSHIRE LOOKING TO HIRE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS.FRED: SAME QUESTION?>> I GET A LOT OF CLIENTS WHO CALL ME, HOSPITALITY, RESTAURANTS, HOTELS, LANDSCAPERS, CONSTRUCTION, THEY CANNOT FIND THE PEOPLE TO WORK FOR THEM BECAUSE OF THE TIGHTENING OF THE IMMIGRATION RULES.>> TIGHTENING OF THE IMMIGRATIONRULES. GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF THE KINDS OF BUSINESSES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.>> LET'S SUPPOSE WE HAVE A HOTELTHAT HAVE ROOMS THEY CAN'T LEASEOUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMERTIME BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE SOMEBODY TO CLEAN THE ROOMS.FRED: AS SIMPLE AS THAT?>> AS SIMPLE AS THAT.FRED: H1B VISA, HERE IS A GRAPHIC, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE NUMBER OF VISAS IN NEW HAMPSHIREIN 2016. H1B VISAS, 1,314. ALLOWING WORKERS TO COME IN AND WORK IN THE UNITED STATES. THOSE GO VERY FAST, DON'T THEY, JOHN, ONCE THEY'RE ALLOWED BY THE STATE AND DEPARTMENT ONCE THEY'RE PUT OUT THERE.>> THERE ARE ONLY 85,000 FOR THEENTIRE COUNTRY. IT'S A LOTTERY. IF YOU'RE A FIRST TIME PERSON TOTRY TO GET ONE OF THOSE, YOU HAVE PERHAPS A 25% CHANCE OF BEING CHOSEN IN THE LOTTERY.>> AND THOSE--AND THAT SEEMS TO BE QUITE A FEW. 1,314 FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE?>> I DON'T THINK SO. I THINK THERE'S A TREMENDOUS NEED FOR A LOT MORE.FRED: REALLY? HOW ABOUT THAT?>> ONE OF THE REASON THERE'S A NEED FOR MORE, IF YOU LOOK AT NEW HAMPSHIRE'S POPULATION IN GENERAL, WITHOUT FOREIGN-BORN PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WE WOULDHAVE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT NET POPULATION LOSS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.FRED: THAT'S A STUNNING FACT.>> IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. SO AS EMPLOYERS ARE LOOKING TO HIRE, WITHOUT THOSE FOREIGN-BORNWORKERS, THIS IS--THERE'S EVEN MORE, YOU LOOK AT THE LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE THERE'S LESS OF A POOL IF YOU TAKE AWAY THE FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS.>> IT'S NOT POSSIBLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE TO FILL THE HIGH QUALITQUALITIED WORKERS TO FILL TECHNICAL POSITIONS.>> ACROSS THE UNITED STATES YOU HAVE PEOPLE UNDOCUMENTED WORKINGHERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THAT'S A PROBLEM. THAT'S AN ISSUE. BUT THERE WAS A PATH FOR THEM, WE WERE ON THE PATH WITH THE FORMER ADMINISTRATION AND WE'RE OFF THAT PATH NOW. WE CAN'T GET THOSE PEOPLE ANYMORE.FRED: AND PEOPLE, BUSINESSES AREFINDING SOME OF THEIR EMPLOYEES ARE LEAVING. THAT'S ANOTHER TREND, ISN'T IT?>> WE HAVE SEEN THAT, MOSTLY ANECDOTAL AT THIS POINT, BUT THERE ARE CERTAINLY PEOPLE IN THE GREATER NASHUA AREA WHO ARE LEAVING THE AREA BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FEEL AND RELY ON BEING HERE.>> GOING BACK TO THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY?>> OR THEIR COUNTRY, CANADA OR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.FRED: JOHN, YOU HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF A MANUFACTURER WHO HAS LOST EMPLOYEES.>> THEY LOST THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE UNDOCUMENTED AND THEY WENT THROUGH AND TERMINATED THEM.FRED: WE COULD TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A LONG TIME. TRACY HATCH FROM THE GREATER NASHUA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND JN WILSON, PRESIDENT AND PARTNEROF A GLOBAL LAW FIRM, THANKS A LOT.>> THANKS, FRED IF HE HAD IF HE HAD IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THAT AGAIN AND LISTEN TO THE CHATTER AMONG US, GO TO