The Economics of Immigration

December 9, 2025, Opinion: "Donald Trump vowed to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history,” and he has been dispatching federal agents into cities across the country to carry it out. The initiative is marketed primarily as a crime-control strategy—a dramatic show of force meant to signal the return of law and order—but also as a way to protect American workers from job competition. The logic sounds straightforward: Remove undocumented immigrants, and crime will fall as native wages rise."