"The reason is that immigrant workers aren’t spread evenly across the economy. They’re strongly concentrated in certain industries and occupations, where they constitute a large share, sometimes a majority, of the work force. As a result, the Trump administration’s latter-day Edict of Expulsion will be far more disruptive to the economy than the aggregate number of workers deported might suggest."
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As Krugman says, immigrant workers are concentrated in areas like agriculture, meatpacking, senior care, construction work, and more.
Cutting off your hand in the hope that might make your whole body feel lighter and better may prove to be an unwise decision, when you realize that you're causing pain to your body and you needed the things that hand did for you.
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