The Costs of Mass Deportation Are Soaring: Harming America’s Economy, Public Safety, and Constitutional Rights

The Costs of Mass Deportation Are Soaring: Harming America’s Economy, Public Safety, and Constitutional Rights

By: Americanvoice.org | Editorial credit: Christopher Penler / Shutterstock.com

Washington, DC — The devastating cost and dire consequences of President Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation obsession continues to be on display across the nation, affecting all Americans. New reporting highlights the economic costs of raids that are overwhelming nursing home care, agricultural and construction workers and threatening regional economies; the public safety costs of the obsessive focus on immigration enforcement above real threats, including terrorism; and the human and moral cost to our nation – from the outrageous story of the father of three Marines being beaten and abducted by ICE to the horrific story of a pregnant mother delivering a stillborn baby while in detention.

According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: 

“Make no mistake: the Trump/Miller campaign against immigrants is bringing real harm to every American. Their obsession is harming American industries, risking the safety of citizens and communities, and destroying the lives of our neighbors, friends, and families. For them, cruelty is the point, chaos is a bonus.  And now they want to turbocharge those harms by massively expanding ICE funding in the big, ugly bill. At what cost to Americans’ safety, prosperity and families will the Trump administration continue their reckless and harmful mass deportation agenda?”

See below for key stories grouped into the types of costs and consequences on display: 

Economic Costs

  • The Washington Post, “Local economies under pressure as ICE crackdowns create climate of fear,” including: “From California grocery stores to chicken chains in suburban D.C., businesses that serve large immigrant populations are reporting shifts in consumer behavior — fewer in-store visits, lower receipts and more delivery orders — that threaten to drag down local economies, according to interviews with business owners, as well as spending data.”
  • Syracuse Post-Standard editorialCrackdown on migrant farm labor a moral and policy failure,” including: “As the federal crackdown on immigration expands to farm fields and meat packing plants, the crippling effects on these businesses and your pocketbooks are just beginning.”
  • KFF Health News“Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers” including: “Existing staffing shortages and quality-of-care problems would be compounded by other policies pushed by Trump and the Republican-led Congress, according to nursing home officials, resident advocates, and academic experts.”
  • Associated Press, “A look at how Trump’s big bill could change the US immigration system,” noting: “President Donald Trump’s spending cuts and border security package would inject roughly $150 billion into his mass deportation agenda over the next four years, funding everything from an extension of the United States’ southern border wall to detention centers to thousands of additional law enforcement staff.”

Public Safety Costs

Moral Costs and Human Toll

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