{"id":5752,"date":"2016-10-07T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2016-10-07T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:42:25","slug":"report-deportations-could-hurt-u-s-texas-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5752","title":{"rendered":"Report: Deportations Could Hurt U.S., Texas Economies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report says mass deportation of unauthorized immigrants could seriously hurt construction and other industries in Texas and across the U.S. Photo: Josch13\/Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n

by Mark Richardson\/TNS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 According to a new report, Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to deport all unauthorized immigrants from the country would have devastating effects on the American economy.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a> from the Center for American Progress said that removing 7 million unauthorized immigrants from the U.S. workforce would reduce the nation\u2019s Gross Domestic Product by almost $5 trillion over the next decade.<\/p>\n

Tom Jawetz, vice president for immigration policy with the Center, said the Texas economy \u2013 which has a significant percentage of unauthorized immigrants in its workforce \u2013 could shrink by $60 billion over the same period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirteen percent of the state\u2019s GDP that\u2019s derived from construction would be lost,\u201d Jawetz said. \u201cTen percent of the state agricultural industry will be lost, and in leisure and hospitality, $6 billion annually would be lost. That\u2019s 12 percent of the GDP, from that one industry alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jawetz said industries such as manufacturing, mining, and wholesale and retail trade would also be hit hard, both across the country and in Texas.<\/p>\n

Undocumented immigrants make up almost 9 percent of the Lone Star State\u2019s workforce, second only to California.<\/p>\n

Jawetz said it\u2019s unlikely there would be enough qualified American citizens to replace the deportees, potentially causing a worker shortage.<\/p>\n

\u201cPursuing mass deportation of unauthorized workers \u2013 that\u2019s 5 percent of the country\u2019s total workforce \u2013 would reduce the national Gross Domestic Product by 2.6 percent,\u201d he warned. \u201cThat\u2019s a cumulative $4.7 trillion over a decade and would decrease federal revenues by $900 billion over that period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reforming the nation\u2019s immigration policy could reap sizeable economic benefits, Jawetz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our immigration laws were modernized and updated to reflect the real needs of American businesses, American families, American communities,\u201d he said, \u201cthen we would be able to supercharge the economic benefits that we already receive from immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mark Richardson\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 According to a new report, Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to deport all unauthorized immigrants from the country would have devastating effects on the American economy. The study from the Center for American Progress said that removing 7 million unauthorized immigrants from the U.S. workforce would reduce the nation\u2019s Gross Domestic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}