Important new @brookings.edu research quantifying economic damages from the Trump ICE surge. Spending tens of billions of dollars to destroy lives, tear apart families and communities, and damage businesses and hurt the economy.
Michele Wucker
New research from Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Paul Beach finds the 2025 ICE enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs across U.S. cities—including an estimated 51,000–297,000 held by American-born workers.
Escobari, Seyal, and Beach find the 2025 ICE enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs across U.S. cities, including jobs held by American-born workers.
