U.S. Could See First Year of Negative Migration Since the 1970s

The U.S. may be heading for a year of negative net migration as President Trump ramps up deporations of illegal aliens.

Accoridng to a report from The Washington Post, various analysts and economists are expecting more people to leave the country than arrive.

Their article states:

Economists at two Washington think tanks expectPresident Donald Trump’s immigration policiesto drive this reversal: from the near-total shutdown of the southern border to threats to international students and the loss of legal status for many new arrivals,according to a forthcoming paper.A rise in deportations — the aim of recent workplace raids that triggered protests in Los Angeles and other cities — also plays a role.

A net outflow of immigrants could stoke inflation, a risk economists already expect from Trump’s tariff policies. It also could renew the type of labor shortages the country experienced during the pandemic. Longer term, it could even have implications for fiscal policy, with fewer immigrants paying taxes and supporting entitlement programs such as Social Security, said one of the economists, Wendy Edelberg.

For the year as a

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