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Earlier research led by University of Colorado Denver Professor Chloe East found that the suppression of undocumented workers led to spillover effects that weakened demand for U.S.-born laborers within local economies.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag—but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for.

US universities have been emailing international students and staff advising them to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, amid concerns over his plans for mass deportations. "All international students are worried right now," University of Colorado Denver professor Chloe East told the BBC. Trump, a...

At the core of this social trust were institutions, like the Post Office, that for Blevins represent the veritable cartilage and guts of the nation. “The US Post,” he says, “is a model of what an effective government could be.” The Postal Service most certainly stayed close to the expanding...

Economists at the University of Colorado Denver, studied the deportations carried out by the Bush and Obama administrations between 2008 and 2014. They found that, for every one million unauthorized workers expelled from the U.S., 88,000 American workers lost their jobs. That is because immigrant workers in certain industries such...

“Maybe it’s because of the nice, sanitized way in which we consume sport as an audience,” says Sarah Fields, who studies how sports intersects with American culture. She says sports thrive on “our innate, maybe human desire — but certainly American desire — for fairness.” “It’s a standardized field with...