Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair: Mass deportation plan will increase grocery costs

The Hill ^ | 11/20/2024 | Ashleigh Fields -

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Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.) said mass deportations could cause a spike in costs for American families, including at the grocery store.

President-elect Trump has repeatedly pledged large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants, which could greatly impact the workforce.

“What we also see, I think, under mass deportations, as you’re going to see further cost for American families going up if you start deporting the agricultural workforce and people in the essential jobs that are putting food on the table, grocery costs are only going to go up,” Barragán said during a Wednesday afternoon MSNBC appearance.

She shared concerns about President-elect Trump’s plan, arguing that large groups of essential workers would vanish under mass deportation efforts

[jonrick46]

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.) is a economics moron. She does not even know the principle of cost as the result of supply-and-demand. When deportation causes the demand to go down as a result of less people in the marketplace, the cost goes down.