Trump's Deportation of Immigrants: An Economic loser and job-killer

Republican convention delegates gave a rousing cheer for a Donald Trump plan that would lose jobs, exacerbate fiscal problems, harm economic sectors like agriculture and construction, make it harder to get eldercare and child care, and probably increase crime. 

I'm not making this up.

It's Trump's plan to deport most of the more than 10 million undocumented immigrants in the United States using the military and police to send them to camps and quickly evict them. Trump charges these immigrants are crime spreaders, so his plan will reduce crime and open up more and higher paying jobs for Native Americans. He claims this is modeled after President Eisenhower's deportation scheme 70 years ago except, being Trump, much bigger.

"ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION"
- Donald Trump Truth Social December 16, 2023

The Republican Presidential nominee's tough lock 'em up and send 'em back plays well with many voters. 

Like other Trump proposals that effectively play on grievances -- imposing across the board tariffs or gutting the civil service -- the benefits he claims are false and the costs considerable.

"The argument that Trump has made is these measures would be good for the economy  and good for American workers," notes Natasha Sarin, a professor at Yale Law school and Management School, and a former Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary. "The vast economic research on this question suggests exactly the opposite. Indeed the recent work by the Peterson Institute (a nonpartisan Washington think tank) suggests that GDP would fall and inflation would rise under Trump's plan."