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NPR Decries ‘Economic Chilling Effect’ of Trump’s Illegal Migrant Crackdown
NewsBusters ^ | 5/14/2026 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 05/14/2026 2:01:48 PM PDT by JV3MRC

Don’t cure cancer because it would devastate the cancer industry! Don’t improve healthcare access because you’ll hurt the funeral industry! That’s the kind of brain hurt logic NPR employed to decry President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration as a devastating blow to the U.S. economy.

“The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown,” read NPR reporter Greg Rosalsky’s incoherent May 12 headline.

Rosalsky flailed over Trump’s ICE raids in Little Village, Chicago: “Many in the community seemed to be scared to go about business as usual. There seemed to be a clear ‘chilling effect’ on their economic activity — like going to work, shopping, eating out, and so on.” To insulate his argument to make it seem like it wasn’t coming out of left field, Rosalsky relied on the musings of liberal University Colorado Boulder economist Chloe East, who snorted to him that “mass deportations in Trump 2.0 are not helping the labor market overall and not creating more job opportunities for U.S.-born workers.” As late economist Henry Hazlitt put it, “The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond.” Jeez-a-loo!

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: economy; illegalimmigration; labor; npr; r

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1 posted on 05/14/2026 2:01:48 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

All illegal aliens absolutely MUST be deported, expelled, kicked the hell out. And also deport their anchor babies. NO EXCEPTION!

Let them go back and stand in line, damn it.


2 posted on 05/14/2026 2:19:28 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: JV3MRC

As the s&p hits all time highs


3 posted on 05/14/2026 2:22:21 PM PDT by suasponte137
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To: JV3MRC

They should have that chilling effect every time they go out in public, they are criminal invaders, send them home where they belong


4 posted on 05/14/2026 2:32:38 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: JV3MRC

Talk to blue collar workers, we’re doing better than ever


5 posted on 05/14/2026 2:34:29 PM PDT by daku
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To: JV3MRC

Pimpin’ illegal immigrants ain’t easy, but someone’s gotta do it


6 posted on 05/14/2026 2:45:18 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Laiken Riley and Iryna Zarutska are my daughters. Charlie pKirk is my brother )
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To: JV3MRC

“ are not helping the labor market overall and not creating more job opportunities for U.S.-born workers”

Almost word for word the pat speech given by H1B advocates. Hmm.


7 posted on 05/14/2026 2:46:53 PM PDT by No.6
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To: JV3MRC
Right now, next to my Chick-fil-A, they're constructing another fast food or stand-alone shop.

There are no less than 50 workers excavating and putting up exterior cinder block walls.

Not a single, solitary Caucasian on the site...in freaking Gaithersburg, Maryland in Montgomery County.

Of course, then entire staff of the Chick-fil-A is also Hispanic or Asian.

Sections of Silver Spring, Maryland have STOP signs in Spanish.

8 posted on 05/14/2026 2:50:10 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot

Montgomery county MD is a case study in destructive globalism.


9 posted on 05/14/2026 2:59:44 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

Fairfax County, VA is now 20% illegal akiens!


10 posted on 05/14/2026 3:07:02 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

That explains the smell.

How can uneducated non citizens that can’t speak English ( probably 90 IQ) afford to live in one of the most expensive counties in the USA?


11 posted on 05/14/2026 3:22:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: JV3MRC

ROTF! “It won’t help Americans in the labor market if cheap illegal alien labor is removed from the market”. Riiiiight. And it won’t help a starving man to give him food either.


12 posted on 05/14/2026 3:24:14 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Flavious_Maximus

YES!

NPR...TFB


13 posted on 05/14/2026 3:35:21 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: JV3MRC

NPR execs need to be investigated for drug cartel and human trafficking connections.


14 posted on 05/14/2026 3:38:10 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: JV3MRC

National Putrid Radio


15 posted on 05/14/2026 4:23:17 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: FLT-bird

Thats why they are teaching kids not to accept jobs that don’t pay 6 figures out of high school

leaves the low wage jobs open for the illegals.


16 posted on 05/14/2026 5:09:49 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: JV3MRC

That $2100/mo SSI for “Humanitarian Parolees” is what they’re talking about. Dewine-OH (R) is all about this type of economic stimulus. Along with Mike and Fran’s Haitian charity that relocates refugees to Ohio for a stipend. Springfield mayor Rue (who owns many rental properties) also praises Section 8.


17 posted on 05/14/2026 7:03:06 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: JV3MRC

Why does NPR still exist?


18 posted on 05/15/2026 12:17:14 AM PDT by Keyser Soze 84
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