Instead of freeing up employment opportunities, findings from one study suggest that the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants could result in 968,000 fewer jobs available for US citizens, losses that would be compounded each year the policy remained in effect.
Almost as if the leading conservative intellectuals are just making things up they think their base wants to hear. After painting any moderating voices as the enemy, they have to take more and more extreme positions that don't match up with reality.