280K Indian international students in US majority doing CS
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Just like he can't deport 10 million illegals either.
The reason is simple math.
Current estimates are it will cost $10K to find, detain, process and deport one illegal.
For every employed illegal deported, his Trump voting employer will lose $1000's in productivity, income and other costs associated with finding and hiring a replacement. Since some illegals are not employed (wives, children, etc.), let's conservatively assume a flat $1000 per person in lost productivity.
Thus, the conservative total cost for Trump's deportation boondoggle as stated will be:
10M x $10K X $1K = $1 X 10^14 = $100 trillion.
By comparison, total annual budget of the US government is only around $6 trillion. Total GDP for 2023 was less than $30 trillion.
Needless to say, millions of workers and $100 trillion taken out of the US economy will trigger a global recession and is simply not practical or reasonable. In other words, you were lied to. It ain't happening --- except for perhaps a few examples done mainly for show.
Maybe Mexico will pay for it.
You still have to pay to send the cavalry to round them up, detain and feed them until you can process them and transport them back to their native country.
Guess who ultimately pays the price for all this --- US citizens --- in more ways than one.
Bottom line: It's expensive to remove lots of low cost labor and wreck your economy all at the same time. But I'm sure Trump will figure it all out. He's a business genius you know.
Laws only matter if you can enforce them. That is the somewhat concerning situation; he’s going to pursue an agenda with few checks and balances. “Oh, it’s illegal? So what?” If there are no consequences, the law is meaningless.
That is what I was alluding to. I apologize if my thesis was not clear. It makes for a dangerous and volatile operating environment for the citizenry.
On the flip side, the long term economic impact of removing millions of workers is likely to be some multiple of $1000 each.