Source: CounterPunch
by Richard D Wolff
“Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For its victims, the cruelties involved are horrific. Yet such deportation makes little sense economically. It represents a nationally self-destructive program based on a faulty grasp of immigration economics.” (02/28/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/28/a-cruel-hoax-the-political-economy-of-anti-immigration/