| Latest Analysis Trump’s Immigration Actions Are Taking a Toll on Local Economies – Here’s What the Data Says So Far Seven months into President Trump’s term, immigration enforcement operations continue to ramp up, and the broader economic impacts are beginning to come into view. Rather than focus on the “worst of the worst,” the Trump administration has increasingly targeted worksites for immigration raids, picking up delivery drivers, street vendors, farmworkers, meatpackers, and others working in industries across the country. Learning in the Shadows: How Immigration Enforcement Harms Students and Schools As students across the United States are returning to the classroom this fall, the lasting and deeply damaging effects of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda loom over schools. As the administration aggressively pursues its immigration enforcement agenda, it is creating a crisis in the nation’s education system — one that’s leaving thousands of children behind academically and emotionally. |
| Facts You Should KnowLast week, immigration authorities again detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident previously deported to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) due to an “administration error” made by the Trump administration. The U.S. government is now trying to deport him to Uganda. Abrego Garcia’s evolving situation has served as a flash point of the second Trump administration, as his detainment and erroneous deportation to El Salvador — and the legal and political battle to return him to the U.S. — demonstrates just how far the administration is willing to push for its mass deportation agenda. This blog from the American Immigration Council explains how President Trump’s “grant and deport” policy may lead to more cases like Abrego Garcia’s. Read more: Trump’s ‘Grant and Deport’ Policy Could Lead to More Cases Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia |
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