2024-11-21
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When we asked for your questions right after the election, there were a few that we got again and again.
One of those was how would mass deportation affect the economy?
Another was how do you even measure the economic impact of immigrants and immigration?
Well, we have some answers, some evidence, and it comes in the form of two stories.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Darian Woods.
And I'm Adrian Ma.
First, Darian and our co host Waylon Wong have the story from another time.
The US Cracked down on immigration with the express intent of helping the economy.
We look at how that worked out.
And then we take 20 years of research and we distill it into what immigrants contribute to economic growth and we run the numbers for immigration in the.
U.S.
today's stories come from Planet Money's daily podcast, the Indicator.
Enjoy.
In 1880, the Chinese were the biggest group of immigrants in the Western US they accounted for around 20% of all immigrants in the region.
This was a time of open borders.
Basically, if you had enough money to make the trip, you could come to.