“ The mass deportations in Trump 2.0 are not helping the labor market overall and not creating more job opportunities for U.S.-born workers,” East says. In fact, she and her co-author find evidence that, if anything, the clampdown has hurt the employment prospects of U.S.-born workers, particularly working-class men who work in industries that are heavily reliant on undocumented workers, like construction.
Their conclusion: “For every six lost male likely undocumented workers, there is a loss of one male U.S.-born worker.“
The report “Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0” by Elizabeth Cox and Chloe N. East is from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
