The fear of deportations and the impact of this process “would ruin the US economy”, warned Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, member of the American Immigration Council, quoted in the local press.

According to a study by the American Immigration Council on the costs of mass deportation concluded that the government would have to spend at least $88 billion per year in order to drastically expand its infrastructure to be able to deport one million people each year.

According to experts, if Trump were to carry out his promise, “building, maintaining and repairing homes would become more expensive, as would groceries, restaurants, travel and child care.”

While a model by the Peterson Institute for International Economics indicated that prices would rise about nine percent, while output and employment would plummet.

Tom Homan, Trump’s next border czar, anticipated that deportations would begin with undocumented immigrants who, by the standards of U.S. authorities, pose an eventual threat to national or public security.

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