The economic thinking behind the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — and it’s not just a crackdown on illegal immigration; legal channels are being shut down as well — is that if you remove immigrants from the workforce there will be more jobs for non-immigrants. This is, in a basic Economics 101 sense, not crazy: Reducing the supply of workers and would-be workers will, all else being equal, improve the bargaining position of those who remain. The mass departure from the workforce of
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