Source: Reason
by Eric Boehm
“Former President Donald Trump’s promise to carry out ‘the largest domestic deportation operation in American history’ would not only be a moral calamity requiring an enormous expansion of government — it would also be hugely expensive and ruinous to the American economy. The governmental infrastructure required to arrest, process, and remove 13 million undocumented immigrants would cost nearly $1 trillion over 10 years and would deal a ‘devastating’ hit to economic growth, according to a report published last week by the American Immigration Council (AIC). The think tank estimates that a mass deportation plan would shrink America’s gross domestic product by at least 4.2 percent, due to the loss of workers in industries already struggling to find enough labor.” (10/07/24)
https://reason.com/2024/10/07/trumps-deportation-plan-would-cost-nearly-1-trillion/