SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — Mass deportations proposed by President-elect Donald Trump will be a huge blow to Mexico’s economy, according to Ismael Plascencia López, specialist with the Northwest Mexico Federation of Economists.
“They’re talking about deporting 11 to 13 million undocumented migrants now in the United States, it seems like an impossible task,” said Plascencia López. “But, if only one to two million people get deported, it would still be a huge strike on the Mexican economy.”
He predicts Mexico will have to invest millions of dollars to care, feed, house and transport deported migrants, not to mention those from other nations.
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“It’s going to be a blow just in terms of the number of people sent here, but what about all those countries that refuse to take in their own people, they will likely end up in Mexico, you have to care for them as well,” he said…