Trump’s Plans for Mass Deportation Would Be an Economic Disaster

Donald Trump’s fierce enmity towards immigrants is a central theme of his campaign, as it was in 2016. This time, though, he is offering detailed plans that, if carried out, would inflict misery on a mass level and major costs for taxpayers and the economy.

Trump’s plans include once again barring entry from selected Muslim-majority countries and, despite the waning threat from COVID-19, denying all asylum claims because a petitioner might carry an infectious disease. Even more radical...