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10/10/2026

“Elderly Americans can expect to lose an average of $2,152 in annual social security benefits each, a projected 8.6% reduction in their retirement payments, by 2034 and every year after as a direct consequence of the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s anti-immigration campaign, if that carries on, according to a new report shared exclusively with the Guardian.”

“In the US agricultural sector, where 42% of crop workers are undocumented and 68% are foreign-born, farmers across the country are warning that the vast majority or in some cases all of their workforce has disappeared overnight, leaving produce to fall to, or rot in, the ground and go to waste.”

“One thing that changed was the [immigration] policy. Before, the trend for all those goods was a lower inflation rate. And afterward, the trend was higher inflation. So the trend was reversed, and that was quite striking,” said Robert Lynch, one of the report’s authors.
The construction industry, where foreign-born workers fill almost a third of all occupations, has also been severely affected. States more dependent on immigrant labor have seen costs for new single-family homes soar 10.9% in 2026, compared with the first eight months of 2024, bringing building projects’ monetary value from an average of $305,752 to $338,752.”

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“Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year”

Alexandra Villarreal
The Guardian

New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

10/05/2026

“Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), unexpectedly vulnerable, is now calling for ICE to coordinate more closely with local law enforcement. Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas), in a competitive reelection fight, has started highlighting her efforts to release “dreamers” — recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — from ICE custody. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), who represents a Miami-area district Trump won, aired a commercial last month saying that parts of the administration’s immigration agenda “have gone too far.””

“The downstream effects of mass deportations might also be exacerbating the economic headaches hurting the party in power. With high beef prices frustrating voters, for example, meatpacking industry organizations are blaming ICE for targeting workers in the processing chain. The Texas Cattle Feeders Association, the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and the Kansas Livestock Association issued a joint statement on Sept. 24 complaining that ICE operations are leading to shipment delays, resulting in lost revenue. Mullin denied carrying out worksite raids in Kansas and said that ICE is “targeting heinous criminals,” but arrests across the three states could cause employees to miss work.”

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“Opinion | Bracing for a post-midterms ICE resurgence”
Editorial Board

The Washington Post

Erratic policy U-turns before the midterms point to tension inside the Trump administration.

10/03/2026

Thank you, Monica Ryadi, for helping your community & country as a nurse!

Please know that there are many people that appreciate you & respect you for what you give back.

A Delco nurse has lived legally in the U.S. since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her 3-year-old son to Disneyland.

10/01/2026

Can America still differentiate between those who endanger and those who strengthen it?

“Deporting committed community members who’ve built lives here runs counter to common sense and to the compassion, mercy, and prudence central to my Christian faith.”

“Removing violent criminals, gang members, cartel members and those who refuse to work is wise and popular policy. But Mariana fit none of those categories.”

“Mariana is not alone. According to ICE’s own numbers, people with no criminal conviction and with only an immigration violation and no other pending charge are now the single largest group the agency holds in detention. That should worry anyone who believes that enforcement ought to focus on actual threats to public safety.”

“We see the same failure in temporary protected status. Afghans who served alongside U.S. troops in the Afghan war have already lost the right to work and remain in this country legally. So have Haitians who have worked here for years. Ukrainians, including more than 1,000 in my district and 2,500 in my state, could be next.”

Don Bacon, a Republican and retired Air Force brigadier general, represents Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Can America still differentiate between those who endanger and those who strengthen it?

10/01/2026

Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican congresswoman from Florida, recently ran a campaign advertisement telling Trump his “immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far.”

10/01/2026

“A close political ally of Donald Trump has broken from the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda and recommended it “step back” to evaluate what it could do better.”

“To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit you’re doing something wrong,” Jim Justice, a Republican senator of West Virginia, told Politico. “And in this situation, with all that’s going on and all the stuff, we probably got to step back from it and say: ‘Maybe we’re doing something wrong here or there,’ and then adjust to that.””

“…his comments also come after an ACLU of West Virginia investigation found that about three-quarters of the more than 593 arrested by ICE in the state during “Operation Country Roads” in January had no criminal record.”

“Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” Justice told Politico.”

“For ranchers in rural communities, ICE operations have had “a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers” who assist in beef production and the cattle supply chain, the Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association said in a statement released last week.

Dairy farmers have also recently raised concerns that ICE operations in rural areas could soon hurt their industries.

“If we had a concerted effort to have enforcement activities within agriculture, you could really harm our ability to produce food to feed ourselves,” Rick Naerebout, the CEO of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, told NPR.”

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“Trump ally urges administration to ‘step back’ and rethink immigration agenda”

Ariana Baio
The Guardian

Republican senator Jim Justice of West Virginia criticizes immigration crackdown as ranchers’ associations condemn ICE activity

09/29/2026

“And by 2021, undocumented students paid more than $81 million annually in tuition and fees to Texas public colleges and universities, according to the nonprofit Every Texan. Ending the policy, the American Immigration Council estimates, could cost the state more than $461 million a year in lost wages and spending power.”

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“Opinion | We’re a Republican and a Democrat. Don’t make ‘dreamers’ collateral damage.”

Letters to the Editor
The Washington Post

'Dreamers,' shelter dogs, naming AI and more, in readers' eyes.

09/06/2026

“The loss of temporary protected status for Haitians means that the U.S. will have to find tens of thousands of new health care workers to staff an already overburdened system. A recent study by the Yale Budget Lab found that even if immigration returned to normal after the Trump administration, by the 2030s there will be thousands fewer new businesses than would be expected, and the economy will be smaller than it could be, with effects lasting as far as 2075.

And thus, another metaphor travels through the body, upward and outward, from the death of a young man on a highway in Ohio to include all of us. Bel was desperate, and his death is a kind of murder, but what the U.S. is doing to itself is simply suicide.”

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“Column | The shame in a photo of an asylum seeker before his death belongs to us all”
Philip Kennicott
The Washington Post

Pierre Damas Bel stepped into highway traffic after losing his immigration status. Before that, he posed for a picture of his ankle bracelet.

09/02/2026

“Today, the Trump administration is spending billions to brutalize Black and brown people, to arrest, detain and deport them, while doubling the amounts allocated for white “refugees”. And while Black and brown people are seeing their legal statuses cancelled overnight, white ones are being offered safe pathways for travel: the resettlement program offers refugees visas to come here.

Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way, one not of budget allowances, but of whose lives are valued.”

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“Opinion | Trump spends billions to deport Black and brown people. But he wants to double cash aid for white ‘refugees’”

Heba Gowayed
The Guardian

‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’

08/28/2026

“Trump officials have consistently stated that their goal is to keep Americans safe by targeting enforcement against “the worst of the worst” — undocumented immigrants who have committed violent crimes or repeated offenses. The new data, however, shows that more than half of all the people ICE arrested in July did not have a criminal record, the highest single-month total since January 2025.”

Federal immigration officers are shifting their targets and tactics to increase arrests. More than half of those detained last month did not have a criminal record.