High Costs, No Benefits: 100 Days of Trump’s Immigration Agenda

Read through the new America’s Voice fact sheet, “High Costs, No Benefits: 100 Days of Trump’s Immigration Agenda,” which includes:

• Costs to Americans’ Health and Retirement Security: to pay for a ramped up ICE and immigration enforcement budget, Congress is ready to slash $880 billion from Medicaid and $230 million from food assistance that U.S. citizens rely on.
• Costs to the U.S. Economy: If President Trump proceeds with mass deportation removing millions of construction, hospitality and agriculture workers, it could reduce the GDP by an estimated $1.7 trillion.
• Costs to Americans’ Safety and Security: The Trump administration has diverted DHS and FBI resources away from investigating violent criminals and fentanyl traffickers to focus on detaining and deporting long-settled, taxpaying and productive members of our communities who have been in the U.S. for decades.
• Costs to Americans’ Values and Freedoms: from detaining and arresting U.S. citizens to ignoring due process and the separation of powers, this administration’s immigration agenda is taking aim at core democratic principles for all Americans.