‘Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government’: how the undocumented helped shrink the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades

With thousands of people pouring into the streets of Minneapolis to protest the White House’s immigration crackdown, debate over President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policy has reached new heights. Identifying and deporting undocumented, so-called illegal immigrants has been a cornerstone of both of Trump’s terms in office (as it was for his predecessors, with Barack Obama earning the label “deporter in chief” from critics). Trump has argued for years that curbing net migration would...