Self Deportation is Real

A new tally by Pew Research indicates that as many as 1.5 million immigrants have left the U.S. so far this year. According to Axios, there are anecdotal reports of labor shortages in industries that are notorious for employing illegal labor: caregiving, agriculture, and meatpacking. Immigrants are declining as a share of the labor force — from 20 percent last year to 19 percent this June, a decrease of 750,000 workers. Some of this number is due to deportations, but an enormous share are illegal immigrants who are reading the writing on the wall: namely, that the law is being...