Trump: I Will Implement Largest Immigrant Deportation Program
Donald Trump, the candidate of the Republican Party in the US presidential elections, has announced that if he wins, he will implement the largest program of deportation of immigrants.
Trump announced this during a rally in New York. It is noteworthy that this statement is made when the USA has used immigrants as cheap labor for years.
Immigrants the only source of growth in the American labor force
According to the results of a new study by the US National Policy Foundation, after 2050, immigrants will be the only source of growth in the country's labor force. Earlier, the foundation announced that the number of Americans able to work will stagnate in the near future. It proves once again that US economic growth and living standards will not progress without immigrants.
During the last five years, only 479 thousand workers born in that country have increased in the US labor market. The number of immigrant workers was 3.6 million people. That means that as of 2019, immigrant workers are responsible for 88 percent of the growth in the US labor force.
Immigrants are cheap, young labor for the US
As the US population ages and slows, immigrants have become an important part of the growth of the American labor force. Over the past three decades, foreigners have accounted for more than half of the growth in the US labor force. The number of immigrants in the labor market has increased by 19.1 million over the past 30 years, while the number of US-born workers has increased by 16.8 million.
Generations of immigrants are the main source of population growth and cheap labor in the United States.
The report notes that the United States would not have grown in production over the past five years without immigrants and their children. In the last 5 years, the number of workers with American parents has decreased by 1.3 million, while the number of immigrants and children of immigrants in the labor market has increased by 5.4 million.
Although "Deport Immigrants Now" is one of Trump's campaign slogans, experts say the country will face legal and practical challenges if the pledge is implemented, and it is not realistically possible to deport that many immigrants from the United States.
