Trump’s ICE blitz cost 668,000 jobs, creating ‘chilling effect’ on US firms

The Trump administration’s Immigration surge into US cities last year resulted in 668,000 Job Losses, creating a “chilling effect” that pervaded local economies, hurt businesses and affected American-born workers, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.The Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign adopted “shock and awe” tactics that were broader and far more visible than previous enforcement efforts, including one started under former president George W. Bush in 2008 and continued under former president Barack Obama, said the authors of the study, released on Friday.In the 86 cities that saw the sharpest rise in ICE arrests, they found roughly 13 lost jobs associated with each excess arrest. Industries that traditionally employ a large share of undocumented migrants, like Construction, saw the biggest impact.