New York Magazine, February 21, 2017: Trump’s Immigration Policies Have Already Taken a Toll on the U.S. Economy
“The research firm Oxford Economics has projected that this Trump backlash could cost Los Angeles County $736 million in tourism spending over the next three years.
This is just one second-order consequence of a single item on Trump’s immigration agenda. The president’s travel ban also threatens the availability of medical care in rural hospitals and productivity growth in Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, his plans to ramp up deportation risk throwing thousands of mixed-status families — specifically, families with citizen children and undocumented immigrant parents — into poverty.”