The Trump Administration is promising an unprecedented intensity of enforcement actions aimed at removing immigrants from their communities, their workplace, and often from their families. In many cases, this may result in deportations, in many others, it may mean indefinite incarceration in detention centers. The new administration is also promising to radically reduce the number of new immigrants allowed into the country and to strip some immigrants of the status they currently hold.

The immigrants most vulnerable are those who are undocumented. But the impact does not end there. People who have temporary visas may see them terminated or unrenewed. People with temporary protected status, asylum seekers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program recipients, and many others are also in a precarious position.

There are far-reaching negative social and humanitarian implications of this type of anti-immigrant policy enforcement. But there are also quantifiable economic risks.

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David Dyssegaard Kallick is director of Immigration Research Initiative
Shamier Settle is a senior policy analyst at Immigration Research Initiative
Shana McClain is a research manager at Colorado Fiscal Institute