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Trump immigration crackdown may eliminate 15M workers by 2035: Study

A new study released Friday says President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies will decrease the country’s workforce by 15 million people over the next decade.

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third, harming U.S. living standards,” the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) wrote in its analysis of deportation efforts led by the White House.

The research organization said the new migrant policies will “substantially” increase the federal debt by $1.74 trillion and reduce gross domestic product (GDP) by $12.1 trillion throughout the span of the next 10 years.

And there it is: the old leftist trope about illegals putting tons of money into the treasury, and that we need illegals more than they need us. Of course, these are the same people who said Trump’s tariffs (which I was against to start with, I wanted a year or so of negotiation first) would cause a recession/depression.

“The reductions in legal immigration include suspending and reducing refugee admissions, the travel ban enacted in 2025, ending Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole programs, prohibiting international students from working on Optional Practical Training and STEM OPT after completing coursework and other changes, such as an expected public charge rule, to restrict legal immigration,” researchers wrote.

So, see, we need to be bringing in a million people from nations who do not speak the language and expect the US to assimilate to them, plus, millions in tech jobs, taking them away from eligible Americans.

“Increasing the federal debt will reduce living standards in the United States by leading to higher levels of taxation, inflation and interest rates than without such debt,” researchers wrote.

Or, the federal government could just spend less on unnecessary things, eh?

Meanwhile, Tom Souza (D-NY) says there’s a better way to to do immigration. He spends a lot of time whining about Trump’s immigration raids, and

(NY Times) The Trump administration’s crackdown in Chicago is also a reminder that only Congress can permanently fix our immigration system. It cannot be done by executive orders, presidential decrees, lawsuits or agency directives. One president can issue an order, the next can reverse it. Judges can block policies or gut them. Cabinet officials can change enforcement priorities overnight. That’s not real leadership; it’s political theater.

Um, Tom? Congress has already passed lots of laws, which give the Executive Branch the authority to do what Trump is doing.

Lawmakers should also fix our guest worker programs and create earned legal status for longtime residents. The border needs to be secure, but children should not live in fear of losing their parents to a midnight raid and families that have built lives here deserve the chance to earn legal status.

We should revamp our guest worker program so that all those who used to come in, work for a bit, then leave, like they used to. They shouldn’t be bringing their whole families and just staying. No pathway to citizenship. But, that’s what Democrats want: tens of millions of new Democrat voters.