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Trump deportation agenda causes job losses for American citizens with no wage increases
https://www.thedailybeast.com/major-hole-in-trumps-deportation-strategy-exposed/A major gap has emerged in President Donald Trump’s deportation strategy, according to a new report.
The Trump administration has repeatedly argued that mass deportations would boost wages and create more jobs for American-born workers by reducing competition from undocumented labor.
But a new study from the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research finds the opposite effect: recent deportation surges have been linked to job losses for both immigrant and American-born workers, with wages largely unchanged.
The impact has been most pronounced in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and wholesale trade, where enforcement actions appear to have cooled hiring across the board.
Men were especially affected, making up more than 90 percent of immigration arrests in the data, with employment among male undocumented workers falling by 5 percent and dropping 1.3 percent for American-born men without college degrees.
The Trump administration has repeatedly argued that mass deportations would boost wages and create more jobs for American-born workers by reducing competition from undocumented labor.
But a new study from the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research finds the opposite effect: recent deportation surges have been linked to job losses for both immigrant and American-born workers, with wages largely unchanged.
The impact has been most pronounced in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and wholesale trade, where enforcement actions appear to have cooled hiring across the board.
Men were especially affected, making up more than 90 percent of immigration arrests in the data, with employment among male undocumented workers falling by 5 percent and dropping 1.3 percent for American-born men without college degrees.