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Folk economic theories are full of wildly incorrect zero sum thinking.

How it actually works:
Immigrants get deported
Leads to businesses shutting down
Leads to born-and-bred Americans losing their marketing, sales, and manager jobs
Leads to those workers wasting their skills taking low paying jobs, displacing new workers
Leads to those newly displaced workers fighting for "the jobs Americans won't do"

It's magical thinking that deporting immigrants will lead to the same employment levels and somehow higher wages for Americans. People think an immigrant comes here and takes a job from an American. No, they come here and make a (possibly different) job for an American. When they are deported the job they held isn't then given to an American (zero sum). The job they held is lost, as are the jobs that depended on that job (negative sum).