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Washington DC, February 25, 2025 — New data analysis by the American Immigration Council shows how immigrants are contributing billions of dollars to the U.S. economy, even as the Trump administration and Congress are pushing for a budget that includes unprecedented funding for mass detention and deportation.
The Council’s analysis, which draws from 2023 census data, shows the broad ways that immigrants are helping make the United States a more prosperous and thriving country: by building housing wealth, keeping social services like Social Security and Medicare solvent, and filling in as a much-needed labor force in sectors like STEM, healthcare, and agriculture. The data also helps shed light on how mass deportation and family separation could hurt families, communities, and industries across the country.
“Immigrants help increase wealth and prosperity for all Americans. And yet the White House and Congress are considering spending billions of dollars to expand ICE, so they can detain and deport people indiscriminately, even as they cut essential social services like Medicaid and food assistance,” said Nan Wu, director of research at the American Immigration Council. “Immigrants have paid up the hard-earned tax dollars that are now going to be used to punish all Americans through a wasteful and cruel mass deportation plan.”
