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  • The Bougie Fallout of ICE’s Crackdown in DC

    09/20/2025 3:54:42 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    Politico.com ^ | 09/20/2025 02:00 PM EDT | Michael Schaffer
    It turns out that the services benefiting the well-to-do are most impacted by DC’s ICE crackdown.According to Yesim Sayin, who studies the city economy at the D.C. Policy Center think tank, this is all terrible news for the municipal economy, coming at a moment when federal job cuts have made the tax base ever more reliant on hospitality and real estate. “All these actions with ICE are like putting additional weight on something that’s about to break,” she said.But the identity of the most prolific consumers of the impacted industries is also likely to shape the politics around the immigration...