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Breitbart’s John Binder reported that in “less than five months, President Donald Trump has reversed a trend that accelerated under former President Joe Biden — mainly that [under Biden] nearly all new jobs went to foreign-born workers who had recently arrived in the United States.”
Under Joe Biden, for every job gained by an American, 7.3 jobs went to migrants—legal and illegal.
So what accounts for that drop and this new dynamic?
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So, it seems likely that many of those one million who fled are illegal immigrants, those who at long last have something to fear now that we have a president enforcing immigration law. Illegal immigrants have no business being in our country, and they sure as hell have no business stealing a job from an American or a legal immigrant.
If fear has driven a million illegal immigrants out of the workforce, that’s a beautiful thing. If you are in the country illegally, you should live in fear of being caught and deported. Fearing a workplace raid, some of those illegals might still be in the country but hiding out at home.
Others, and let’s hope it’s most or all of them, might be self-deporting to their home countries.
Trump is using both carrot and stick to motivate illegal aliens to self-deport.
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The stick is even more persuasive.
First off, there is the ongoing fear of being deported. Then there are the workplace raids, which will motivate employers not to break the law by hiring illegals. Then there’s the cutting off of social services for illegals—housing and the like.
The less secure illegals feel in America and the harder it is for them to make a living and find a place to live, the more motivated they are to self-deport.
This is the way.
The average deportation costs around $17,000. Self-deportation costs the taxpayers a fraction of that.
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Regardless, there is no question that a million fewer migrants in the workforce benefits American workers and American wages. What the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post describe as a weak labor market is really a pro-worker market where a smaller pool of workers juices wages.
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