Elite economist slips: Deportations under Trump raised wages

By Neil Munro | Breitbart

President Donald Trump is pushing up wages for millions of Americans by ending the federal welcome for millions of illegal migrants, says a pro-migration economist at a Washington, DC, think-tank.

“We’re going to see stronger wage growth in some occupations, stronger wage growth in the agricultural sector, stronger wage growth for home health workers,” said Wendy Edelberg, a “senior fellow” at the elite-funded Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

But the loss of deported migrants will have “pretty modest economic effects” on the overall size of the nation’s economy, she told Bloomberg on July 11.

“I think those [economic effects] are dwarfed by just the visceral effect” as business reacts to the sudden cut-off of expected migrants, she said. “We may have … more people leaving the country than entering … for the first time in many decades,” she said.

Edelberg’s admissions come amid multiplying reports of wage gains for millions of ordinary Americans who have lost wages, housing, and wealth amid the vast inflow of migrants caused by federal policy since 1990. Many of those Americans pulled the lever for Donald Trump in November 2024, and he immediately choked off the supply of new migrants.

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