The Liberal Study Claiming DACA Repeal Will Result in 700K Job Loss Is a Lie

President Donald Trump has made it clear that he’ll be ending the unconstitutional Obama-era policy DACA (Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals). And liberal fear-mongering is already running rampant. Now some Republicans are joining the left in being worried about the effects of repealing DACA

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan asked Trump to hold off on repeal while Congress works out an alternative. Ryan said in a statement: “President (Barack) Obama does not have the authority to do what he did … we’ve made that very clear. Having said all of that, there are people who are in limbo. These are kids who know no other country, who were brought here by their parents and don’t know another home. And so I really do believe there that there needs to be a legislative solution.”

So Obama broke the law. But, apparently, Ryan is totally cool with it because he agrees with the end result.

Democrats are also making counter-arguments to keep DACA. One of the liberal talking points in favor of DACA says that eliminating the program will shed hundreds of thousands of jobs. According to a recent op-ed that appeared in Fortune Magazine, “The United States could lose up to 700,000 jobs and suffer billions of dollars in lost economic output if President Donald Trump ends a program granting work permits to the children of undocumented immigrants, a new report finds.”

Noting that the law has benefited approximately 800,000 so-called “DREAMers, the editorial’s author argues that repeal could ending up costing the country “$460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade.” That’s in addition to Social Security and Medicare contributions falling by “$24.6 billion.”

So how accurate are those numbers, and how in the world did the author reach that conclusion?

Jazz Shaw at Hot Air rips apart the flawed argument by pointing out that the author cites a study from the Center for American Progress, “which is essentially an unofficial arm of the Democratic National Committee.”

But, more importantly, Shaw points out that even if employers shed $700,000 employees because DACA repeal strips them of their work authorization, there is still a deep pool of native workers companies can hire. For every DACA employee let go, an American citizen could take their place.

The jobs aren’t lost – they just go to different people. And in this case, they go to Americans.

Sounds like a good deal to me.  As Shaw writes, “The unemployment rate is low right now, thankfully, but it’s not at zero. There are still people out there looking for work and more are graduating every year.”

While the unemployment rate is indeed down, what Shaw says is a bit misleading because the labor force participation rate is still historically low. During Barack Obama’s presidency there was a net increase in employment by 9.9 million jobs, but 14. 6 million people left the labor force.

Think about it this way: Suppose we could deport all fifteen million illegal immigrants residing in America overnight. Would you complain that the nation suffered fifteen million job losses – or be glad that actual American citizens can now take those jobs at higher wages?

I’d say the latter.

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