Economy
The Price of Mass Deportation
Trump wants to deport 11 million immigrants. Here are the likely economic consequences of that.
California could lose $100 billion of its GDP, annually. Texas could lose $60 billion. New Jersey, $25 billion. All but 5 U.S. states would see at least 1 percent of their GDP disappear each year. The resulting nationwide losses would build up to about $4.7 trillion in ten years.
This gloomy hypothetical scenario isn’t the economic fallout of some Wall Street meltdown or global currency crisis, although it certainly sounds like it. It’s the potential consequence of deporting around 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to do.