Immigrants actually do help to make America great.
By Dr. Kenneth A. Reinert
Professor of Public Policy
Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University
One problem with ethnonationalist political movements is that they tend to substitute theatrics for effective policymaking. It’s much more exciting to issue dark warnings about “threats from within” than to, say, analyze the details of jobs matching systems. But before we head down the MAGA path on immigration, it would be prudent to assess the economics of the issue.
As part of MAGA’s efforts to destroy the so-called Deep State, the Heritage Foundation has published its Project 2025. In the realm of immigration, Project 2025 commits a second Trump administration to freeze work visas at statutorily set caps. The cap for foreign non-agricultural workers is currently set at 66,000, effectively guaranteeing that, given business demand for these workers, most it will be supplied via illegal immigration.
Nonetheless, Project 2025 envisions “establishing and maintaining temporary facilities” for expelling illegal immigrants. More specifically, in an interview with the New York Times, former Trump advisor Stephen Miller announced that if Trump is reelected, his administration plans to round up millions of illegal immigrants, place them in what can only be called concentration camps, then deport them.
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