President Donald Trump's policy of mass deportations is taking its toll on Americans with increased prices on various products, in addition to impacts on employment in different industries, reveals a report from America's Voice.

“The increase in immigration controls is costing hundreds of thousands of jobs, including those of workers born in the United States,” says the report titled 'End the ICE Tax' or End the ICE Tax. “An analysis of payroll data in hundreds of American cities revealed that the increase in [immigration] controls in 2025 caused the loss of approximately 668,000 jobs, of which between 51,000 and 297,000 corresponded to workers born in the United States.”

The analysis provided to this newspaper highlights that where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) carries out operations, “local economies contract for all” the inhabitants of the county, city or state.

It is cited that a study by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania compared ICE operations with real-time data on public influx and spending in millions of businesses, where the effects on the economy in general at different levels are confirmed.

“After the arrival of the [immigration] police in a metropolitan area, consumer spending decreases by 6.2% and public attendance decreases by 2.7% in the average business, week after week,” the report warns. “The impact is greatest on small independent businesses, shows no signs of abating, and continues regardless of neighborhood demographics.”

Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America's Voice explained that mass deportation policies do not only have a cost for migrant populations, but for the entire country.

“We have said that mass deportations not only bring chaos and cruelty, and the violation of fundamental rights to our communities, but they are also costly, costly from the perspective that our government is spending billions of dollars on this effort,” he said. "The other cost, which is what this report focuses on, is that deportations are contributing to the increase in prices, especially of basic products that families need. And that it also depresses economic activity, especially in those cities, counties, districts where there is ICE activity."

ICE Stock and Price Rising

One of the campaign promises of now President Trump was to reduce prices and improve the economy, but the report published this Wednesday uses hard data that reveals the opposite, since a significant percentage of food depends on immigrant labor and, in the face of deportations, they are experiencing the fastest price increase, the report indicates.

“68% of American agricultural workers are immigrants: 42% undocumented and 26% authorized,” the report recalls. “The fruits, vegetables and dairy products most produced in the United States by these workers have seen price increases considerably higher than the underlying inflation rate of 2.6%.”

These increases are also recorded in lettuce with 32.1%; apples with an increase of 7.1%; fresh citrus fruits have risen 6.3%; canned fruits are up 7.9% and canned vegetables are up 3.5%. Of these last two products, “approximately 60% and 90%, respectively, are produced in the country,” the report adds.

“When Trump came to the White House, he promised that he was going to reduce prices and we are seeing that he is doing the opposite,” Cárdenas lamented.

Some most impacted states and the action needed

The “End the ICE Tax” report analyzes the effects of the Trump administration's immigration actions from their inception until June 2026 in California, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey and New York, as they are home to “approximately half of the country's foreign-born population.”

This has led to a negative impact on the workforce in several industries, such as construction, with a 1.3% drop in construction, “while in the rest of the country construction employment grew by 3.3 percent during the same period,” it adds.

Housing permits, it is added, have decreased in all regions that have a larger migrant workforce. Although the approval of such permits fell by 9.5% between March 2025 and June 2026 at the national level, in the regions impacted by ICE the reduction is greater: -23.5%; West -10.4%; South .9.3%, and Midwest -1.6%.

“The interesting thing is that when we have tried to compile the information we see that there are these studies throughout the country in these states where there are obviously a significant number of immigrants and the interesting thing is that these studies are independent of these states, but they are all telling the same story,” said Cárdenas. “As I said before, mass deportations are not only morally and cruel and terrible from the perspective of our values ​​and who we are, but they also have a real impact on our economy.”

Cárdenas trusts that the report will be considered by government representatives or congressmen in the aforementioned states, to raise their voices about the effects of President Trump's immigration policies.

“We are going to go to these states so that business leaders, elected leaders, really understand that these mass deportations are going to have a long-term impact on key industries,” he said. “That will help them make the argument that they are taking steps to lower prices [and how deportation policies] are contributing to Americans paying more, to making everything more expensive.”

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