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Featured commentary, press mentions, and public analysis regarding Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0, co-authored with Elizabeth Cox — NBER Working Paper 35129, conditionally accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
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FACT SHEET: The Trump-Miller Deportation Machine Is Stripping Constitutional Rights and Driving Up Costs
Cites the paper's finding that for every six undocumented workers who lose jobs to ICE enforcement, one U.S.-born worker with a high school degree or less also loses their job, as part of a broader fact sheet on due-process violations and rising costs from the deportation campaign.
Measuring the Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Labor Markets: Quasi-Experimental Studies of §287(g) Agreements and the Secure Communities Program
A CRS In Focus product summarizing seven quasi-experimental studies — including this one — on how prior immigration enforcement programs (§287(g) agreements and Secure Communities) affected domestic labor markets.
Shock, awe, and economic fallout: The employment effects of ICE enforcement in US cities
Finds the enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs nationally, with employment falling 0.73% below trend in cities with the sharpest rise in ICE arrests — losses concentrated in construction and food services but spreading well beyond immigrant-intensive sectors.
Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda: A Path to Better Jobs, Higher Wages, and Prosperity for All
A joint ACLU–AFL-CIO report arguing mass deportation worsens the affordability crisis for working families, citing labor market research to support a proposed pathway-to-citizenship policy alternative.
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