Project 2025 deportations

If immigrants were deported—Trump is proposing massive deportations—what would it mean for [your] grocery bill and access to food.  [...] When Alabama passed its anti-immigrant Bill, people fearing arrest and detention as a prelude to expulsion fled the state. A preliminary assessment in 2011 while the bill was being challenged in court suggested it would cost the state $40 million, shrinking the workforce and the taxpayer base. Alabama’s Agriculture Commissioner said at the time that “the economic hardship to farmers and agribusiness will reverberate throughout Alabama’s economy, as one-fifth of all jobs in our state come from farming.”

By February of 2012, when there was hard data to pull from, the assessment had increased dramatically, suggesting the Bill reduced the state’s GDP by $2.3 to $10.8 billion annually. That’s just one state. Imagine it played out across the country.

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That year, produce skyrocketed in price. Farmers saw crops rot in the field because they couldn’t hire workers to bring them in. That impacted all of us for a time—ultimately, significant parts of the law were rejected by the courts. Imagine the country, or large swaths of it, impacted by labor shortages across multiple sectors: food is more expensive, wait times for fixing storm damage to homes gets longer and longer, population numbers that drive funding for school contracts decrease, and so forth. Mass deportations may sound good to conservatives, especially as a campaign tactic, but understanding what that really looks like for all of us is a bleak prospect.

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Take a look, even if it’s just through the table of contents to decide what you might want to read first. Or look around the website itself, to understand what the project is and who is behind it.

  Joyce Vance

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.