Experts Predict Mass Deportation Would Damage US Economy

Monday, December 16, 2024

Scripps News' "Truth Be Told" series examines claims that President-elect Trump's plan to expel undocumented immigrants would come at a high cost.

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Trump concedes that there will need to be new concentration camps built in the U.S. as part of his "mass deportation" plan:

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Does anyone think that Donald cares, or would even admit, that he damages the US economy?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-16 12:27 PM

I see a MAGA future with fewer and fewer hamburgers.

Hamburgers, in fact, may become mythical in aspect. Future generations may come to believe that there never really was anything like a hamburger.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-16 12:29 PM

No worries. Trump will be just fine.

CNN political correspondent Sara Murray appeared on the network to break down what she's found about Trump's continued hiring of immigrant workers in recent years.

"In 2024, the Trump Organization businesses were approved to hire 209 foreign guest workers," she said. "This is... nearly double from the number a decade ago. It's the highest number for the Trump businesses we have for any year on record, according to government data."

Raw Story

#3 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-12-16 12:36 PM

I see a MAGA future with fewer and fewer hamburgers.

If you agree that we have a climate problem, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

#4 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-12-16 12:38 PM

If you agree that we have a climate problem, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

#4 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

MAGA doesn't, though.

They will assume that someone is stealing their hamburgers from them. I suppose that would have to be migrants. They will get big angry.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-16 12:43 PM

"Experts Predict Mass Deportation Would Damage US Economy"

That's ONLY because mass deportation would damage the US economy.

SEE how hyperbolic the "fake news" experts can be???

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-16 12:50 PM

Well, lets think back to the first days of mass importation in the early days of 2021. It sure as hell didn't help the economy - especially the shortage of housing for working Americans.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-16 01:08 PM

As of 2022 there were more than 15 million vacant residential units in the US.
In 2023 there were supposedly less than 1 million homeless people.

Given those numbers, please explain how immigrants are cause for any part of the so-called housing shortage.

usafacts.org

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-12-16 01:21 PM

Well, lets think back to the first days of mass importation in the early days of 2021. It sure as hell didn't help the economy - especially the shortage of housing for working Americans.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Your klan was whining about "press 1 for english, press 2 for spanish" WAYYY before 2021.

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-16 01:24 PM

Turdfuq is one stupid bastard.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-16 01:54 PM

Will deportations happen? Sure. A couple hundred illegals currently in US prisons will be sent home. King Dotard II will announce that he deported 43 million. Hijinks will ensue when the slow-witted cabal running the deportation machine send home all the drug lords currently held in the US. Trump Hotels will get a special exemption to allow hundreds of summer workers to come into the US, to be paid minimum wage for the chance to clean hotel rooms in Boca or New York. In the end, the actual count of those sent packing will be far, far below what has been guesstimated. MAGA folks will not notice or care, so long as their grass is cut and they get new roofs...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2024-12-16 02:01 PM

Mass Deportation Would Damage US Economy

"Challenge Accepted!"
-the Republican Party

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-16 02:04 PM

This will stop as soon as DJT realizes he can't hire any dishwashers and gardeners at his motels.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-16 02:16 PM

He'll provide his illegal immigrants with temporary work visas.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-16 02:26 PM

It'll get worse, before it gets worse

#15 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-12-16 06:37 PM

The economic effects of the mass deportation of millions of people will act as a brake on Trump's deportation plans because he knows that one of the reasons he got elected was the "economy". However, to the people surrounding him and many of the people that voted for him, the economy was an after thought. This tension will probably limit the deportations to only criminals which will leave many of his supporters very unhappy. How unhappy? The elections of 2026 will be very revealing.

#16 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2024-12-17 06:33 AM

What do they know?

Question is, will dotard deport the workers his companies just hired this year?

I am thinking no.

Pretty sure that any CEO that has a membership at ----------- will be off this list for ICE visits.

#17 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-12-17 11:51 AM

Short term pain for long term gain.
America would be better served if people like Sycophant, CorkyTheBigot, and SpeaksPoorly had jobs.

Legal immigration reform should be the goal, not allowing illegal migrants to work in the country is a good thing for all in the long run.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-17 12:08 PM

Well, lets think back to the first days of mass importation in the early days of 2021. It sure as hell didn't help the economy - especially the shortage of housing for working Americans.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds

LOL this idiot thinks this issue started in 2021...

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-17 01:51 PM

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