From American Immigration Council <[email protected]>
Subject This Week in Immigration: Local Economies Contract as Immigration Enforcement Expands
Date August 31, 2025 2:00 PM
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Trump’s Immigration Actions Are Taking a Toll on Local Economies – Here’s What the Data Says So Far [[link removed]]
Seven months into President Trump’s term, immigration enforcement operations continue to ramp up, and the broader economic impacts are beginning to come into view. Rather than focus on the “worst of the worst,” the Trump administration has increasingly targeted worksites for immigration raids, picking up delivery drivers, street vendors, farmworkers, meatpackers, and others working in industries across the country.
Learning in the Shadows: How Immigration Enforcement Harms Students and Schools [[link removed]] As students across the United States are returning to the classroom this fall, the lasting and deeply damaging effects of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda loom over schools. As the administration aggressively pursues its immigration enforcement agenda, it is creating a crisis in the nation’s education system — one that’s leaving thousands of children behind academically and emotionally.
Facts You Should Know
Last week, immigration authorities again detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident previously deported to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) due to an “administration error” made by the Trump administration. The U.S. government is now trying to deport him to Uganda [[link removed]] .
Abrego Garcia’s evolving situation has served as a flash point of the second Trump administration, as his detainment and erroneous deportation to El Salvador — and the legal and political battle to return him to the U.S. — demonstrates just how far the administration is willing to push for its mass deportation agenda.
This blog from the American Immigration Council explains how President Trump’s “grant and deport” policy may lead to more cases like Abrego Garcia’s.
Read more: Trump’s ‘Grant and Deport’ Policy Could Lead to More Cases Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia [[link removed]]
Further Reading
New York Times: Impact of ‘Continuous Vetting’ for U.S. Visa Holders Remains Unclear [[link removed]]
Associated Press: Posts overestimate number of noncitizens living in US by tens of millions [[link removed]]
Time: ‘Lone Star Lockup’ ICE Mega Detention Facility Opens Doors [[link removed]]
Scripps News: Immigrant population in the US has started to decline for the first time in years [[link removed]]
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