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ICE crackdowns have not delivered measurable economic gains for US-born workers.

Scholars of labor markets, immigration and public environmental policy explain:
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When ICE ramped up enforcement, US-born workers didn’t see any economic gains

Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.
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Prosecute ICE, and the "decision makers" that have turned it into what it is today!
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In fact jobs have decreased for US-born workers as economic activity has decreased. The growth of US industry from its very start in the textile mills of Massachusetts, the spread of agriculture through its entire history, and the industrialization of agriculture beginning in California in the second half of the 19th century has always depended upon immigrant labor. Throughout the world growing economies have always seen shift of population into them from other regions and their leaders have encourage it. The invention of the atomic bomb and growth of American Universities generally was by means of scientists fleeing the great universities of Europe. Decline of great civilizations experience decreasing populations. It is not the immigrants that cause the problems. I remember in my childhood passing blocks and blocks of boarded up factories in the northeast as manufacturers and their financiers moved production overseas.
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