The Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States plans to deport between 15 and 20 million people. “This will be the largest deportation process in American history,” Donald Trump announced. Kamala Harris, in turn, would like to make it easier for those who work hard to stay in the US.

Trump on illegal immigrants

“This will be the largest deportation process in American history,” Donald Trump announced. Local experts, including those from the University of Pennsylvania, claim that such a move would be deadly to the American economy. About 9 million illegal immigrants in the US, performs jobs that no one else wants to do. They are therefore the cheapest labor force in the United States, which is already struggling with an unfavorable demographic curve.

According to a study conducted by the Center for Migration Studies, illegal workers still contribute to federal, state and local taxes to the tune of about $97 billion.

Mass deportations, as The Guardian writes, would affect and break up nearly 5 million American families, so raising abandoned children could cost the US nearly $116 billion.

The Pew Research Center also adds that such a decision could collapse the construction market, in which 13% of the workforce is made up of illegal immigrants.

A large increase in inflation in the US was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, when nearly a million immigrants came to the country than before. As experts note, this trend reversed when the workforce flowed back to the US.