ITEP Senior Analyst Marco Guzman on the big hits to the economy that mass deportation could bring

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Marco Guzman (Courtesy photo)

Among the actions that the new Trump administration is expected to make a top priority in the coming days is an aggressive new mass deportation initiative targeting the nation’s millions of undocumented immigrants. It’s a plan that may sound superficially appealing to many Americans, but as we learned in a recent conversation NC Newsline had with Marco Guzman — a Senior Policy Analyst with the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy – it’s also a plan that will, if implemented, bring a host of unwanted consequences.
As Guzman explained, not only is it likely that numerous key economic sectors will suddenly find themselves without an adequate workforce, but because undocumented people pay billions of dollars in taxes – even as they’re ineligible for most government services – it’s likely that both the federal and state governments will suffer big revenue hits.

Click here to listen to the full interview with Guzman. Read ITEP’s report here.