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The real story behind the slump in Las Vegas tourism

Let's just give a little bit more voice to those folks. Diana Valles is president of the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226 in Las Vegas, a huge and important and influential union. And she says it's President Trump's immigration policies that are having an impact on her members.

DIANA VALLES: Our union is 50% or more Latinos, immigrants.

And not only that they are in the middle of thinking of how, if I get a layoff, how am I going to be able to provide for my family, but some of them, they have people that they worry about it because of their immigration situation and so there's a lot of stress, a lot of fear. A lot of uncertainty in all members right now.

CHAKRABARTI: And Valles has a simple way of putting it.

Here's what she sees is the cause of the tourism slump in Las Vegas.

VALLES: It is a Trump slump. That's what it is, when you have the leader of this country telling the world that they're not welcome here.

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