According to the latest estimates, approximately 11.7 million undocumented immigrants currently reside in the United States, which amounts to roughly 3.5% of the total U.S. population. The United States has more international migrants than any other country in the world, surpassing the total of the next four countries combined. But in recent years, the United States has not deported more than half a million immigrants with a formal removal order in a single fiscal year. If President Trump follows through on his promise of deporting all undocumented immigrants over his four-year term, the country could see a deportation operation on an unprecedented scale. So how exactly will the mass deportation be carried out? And what impact will it have on the U.S. economy?
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Can The U.S. Economy Survive A Mass Deportation?
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Sorry, but my niece and her boyfriend worked plenty of restaurant jobs. And while the illegals working in those place were nice people according to her they were undercutting her salary. If BK and Mc donalds can pay a fair wage, so csm those greedy. Resturaunt owners. Places that pull in 3 million or more a year straught profit, crying that they can’t afford to pay minimum wage.
Same thing with CNA jobs, all of a sudden friends that worked those jobs had their pay slashed.. then came the illegals.
They are also given govt housing and subsidized while veterans are told to sleep on the street. Over 32,000 as of today.
If we need farm workers they can be given work permits, already are.. don’t give me that crap.
Face it this was all about subsidizing slave labor, for Amazon, and nursing homes, and the hospitality industry, on the tax payer dime.
These people are not making a better life, they are being exploited, or engaging in criminal acts.
If you wanted to give them a better life, it wouldn’t have been done the way it was
I think it's interesting that they never mention how the crime rate has skyrocketed since the open boarders happened. I guess modern journalism only cares about the economy and not citizens' well-being.
Deport or arrest Elon Musk he is the most dangerous immigrant in the world, revoke his citizenship for espionage, he loot the government, he illegally influence and fire federal employees who can investigate his crimes and conflicts of interest, he loot the U.S treasury and still reward him with millions of government contracts and for maintaining illegal and unauthorized calls with Putin and abroad. Trump is just the senile puppet of Führer Elolf Muskler.
There are millions of US citizens looking for employment and would be more than happy to have the jobs these companies are giving to illegals. These companies know they have a lot of control over their laborers and can do things to them that a US citizen wouldn’t tolerate. That’s the situation in a nutshell.
Im so happy now not as many framers and sheet rockers in the way . Now i can do my job in piece.
Let’s do the mass deportation and then see what happens.
21,000 illegals need to be deported EVERY SINGLE DAY of Trump's four year term to reach the extremely conservative estimate of thirty million aliens here illegally (the true number is probably fifty). My fear is that although Trump's team is going to work diligently at this task, they are barely going to make a dent in the problem.
Is CNBC worried their under the table help will be gone? They’d have to pay more for their help
If we need them for ss then being outnumbered by them were good even if we deported 2 million
Illegals take jobs until every American can fibd a job for thier skills ,immigrants are a problem
Fast answer is yes
While it's true that many illegal immigrants are willing to do jobs Americans refuse to do, the problem of that could be solved by getting the massive numbers of homeless Americans to do those jobs. With the desperation homeless Americans face daily, eventually they'll find that it's better to do a job they hate and have proper housing than it would be to remain homeless while living in a tent. Such a tactic would greatly reduce the numbers of unemployed and homeless Americans both of which are very high.
This should have read Can the U.S. survive another four years with trump
Devastating to natural born u.s. citizens or food truck business owners?
We love you Trump
If Brothas gotta get arrested for warrants, so do they…crime is a crime
Illegal immigrants should NEVER see benefits. They are workers and that's all they are good for!
I think we’re overly fixated on the idea of the economy crashing. In reality, the economy doesn’t crash—it goes through cycles and almost always recovers. So I’m not too concerned about the predictions. My focus is on growing my portfolio. I’ve read that some people are making significant profits even during the downturn. Any tips on how they’re doing it?
The reason for the success of the USA economy is the explotation of illegal workers!!!, without them the USA is done
wow
You’re title is wrong “ can US business owner stop exploiting cheap labor utilizing illegal aliens that they can pay under the table and duck employment taxes” lol they’re literally mad they can no longer exploit foreign workers who are here illegally lol
From
WNYC (Opens in new window)
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama spoke to the hearts of Latinos with three words: "Yes we can."
"He started using this phrase Si Se Puede. Yes we can,” said Jorge Ramos, a journalist with the largest Spanish-language news network in the country, Univision. “That actually was taken from two great Latinos: Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.”
Si Se Puede was the rallying cry of the farmworker rights movement in the 1960's. And with that chant, Ramos, considered one of the most influential voices among 57 million Latinos in the country, said Latinos could see themselves in Obama.
Ten million came out for the general election; 67 percent voted for Obama. In 2012, Obama secured even more Latino votes.
No one expected Barack Obama would become the president to deport more people than any other president in U.S. history.
“No. Nobody,” said Ramos. “Not at the beginning.”
Obama's Homeland Security deported 2.7 million people — an average of about a thousand immigrants a day, for eight years — earning him the title of “Deporter in Chief."
Even after Donald Trump was elected, on January 4, 2017, the Obama administration confirmed a new wave of immigration raids, focused on children and families fleeing Central America.
Obama deported more immigrants than any president in history but you never seen one deportation on television. Pope loved him and Selena Gomez was all smiles. Nobody talked about the effects of his mass deportations. Trump got record employment after Obama.
Can bring in South Africans to farm. They actually are being persecuted in their country. Many countries in Africa and Asia actually fit the requirements for Asylum .
If they came here illegally they can't work tax dollars are supporting them, so how keeping them helping our economy, now those that came legally can illegals n legals are not the same
Constructions, Farm, mining, Lawn Care, Roofers, Janitorial business, restaurants, and many more will go out of business. Also, our basic costs will jump as well. And many small business who caters to many undocumented workers may be losing their customer bases and will go out of business as well.
If worker is legally working in USA. No problem. If illegal, a problem!!!
Lol trying to divide people again. Ges america will survive but this liberal fake news network won't
I love how the American people voted for this . Laws matter.❤️ No more tears illegals. Pack your bags
Automation and AI are round the corner so these jobs can be filled. Even Doctors and Lawyers can be outsourced Where is this cheap labor going to go? Look forward to more elbow room and increased wages
EVERY GOVERNMENT BEING TRYING DEPORT INDIVIDUALS WITH NO LEGAL STATUS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER 10 YEARS AND SPEND OVER 10 BILLION DOLLAR AND LET ME TELL YOU NOT EVERYONE ITS A CRIMINAL AND THEY WILL FIGHT WITHIN A FEDERAL COURT WITH JUDGES AND THE COUNTRY THE COURT SYSTEM WILL BE CONGESTED TO SEVERAL YEARS TO FINALIZED EACH CASE , THE BEST WILL BE TO MAKE A DECENT IMMIGRATION BILL REFORM FOR THOSE WHO ARE PAYING TAXES WITH THEIR FEDERAL ITIN THAT HAS BEING PROVIDED BY THE IRS ,WE ALL WILL BENEFITS THE COUNTRY ECONOMY, BUT INSTEAD THEY ARE WASTING TIME AND MONEY .
I need a job why wont they hire us instead
Obama did it at a higher rate and no one batted an eye
immigrants or no immigrants….just dividing the people.
keeping you all riled up.
What you should be doing is hedging against America at this point to save your own ass.
You know when the hate gets this bad its because the ship is sinking