ICE Crackdowns Cut Jobs for U.S.-Born Workers as Employers Scale Back Without Immigrant Labor, Study Reveals

Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Isn’t Helping Native-Born Workers

Even if you hate President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign—which has placed about 60,000 undocumented immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and has deported, depending on who you ask, somewhere between 350,000 and 605,000 people—you probably think the immigration crackdown is benefiting native-born American workers. After all, the crackdown is creating labor shortages in restaurants, in construction, and in health …

ICE Crackdowns Cut Jobs for U.S.-Born Workers as Employers Scale Back Without Immigrant Labor, Study Reveals

For every six undocumented workers lost, the study estimates one U.S.-born worker also loses employment