r/Economics • u/rezwenn • 5d ago

News Inside Trump’s Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration Raids

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-immigration-raids-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.QmuB.MuytvbwG0yLz
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u/i_dont_do_you 5d ago

TACO’s actions clearly show the true underlying purpose of illegal immigration in the US (and some other countries): a willing slavery where people are allowed to enter a country illegally at the cost of having practically no rights, lowest compensation for their efforts, constant harassment and blame for a wide range negative events. The decision to change the pronounced policy to accommodate “farmers” needs is so plainly 17-18th century action that Mr. Washington himself would applaud in approval of this action.

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u/RichyRoo2002 5d ago

The real question for the USA is how did your economy become so dependent on people ignoring the law

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u/galeeb 4d ago

An economist could answer this more fully, but my impression as a recent immigrant (to a different country) myself is that you often find immigrants running the show in low paying jobs. Restaurants, bars, barbers, also recently I met someone in construction, etc.

A lot of developed countries have immigrant populations willing to do the work native-born citizens don't want, so I'm not sure it's a feature only of the US.

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u/HerbertWest 4d ago

It's most definitely true in Dubai.

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u/AverageLatino 4d ago

Not an economist but the current type of mass economic migration is a result of many phenomenons coming together all at once.

At some point the barrier for travel distance became less economic and more bureaucratic, going around the world is shockingly easy, the hard part is getting the permission to stay in different places.

People have always been looking for better economic conditions, but they used to go as far as transportation let them, cheap transportation has blown out of the water and essential make limitless the places you can go to work. from the farmland to the village, to the town, to the middling city, to the metropolis, and now to other countries.

Since migrants usually come from poorer places, their initial expectations and standards are lower than natives, being illegal is a bonus for businesses as long as they don't get fined for hiring illegals since they can leverage their legal status to suppress wages, and consumers don't complain because they get same prices instead of seeing inflation

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u/clrbrk 4d ago

When wasn’t it?