China’s Age of Alienation Shows How Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan May Evolve

Donald Trump promises to deport millions of illegal immigrants when he returns to the White House. If it comes to an end, it will be on a scale unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetime.

Many supporters of Trump’s mass deportation program say that deporting unauthorized immigrants will help the U.S. economy. But a look back at America’s first major crackdown on immigration suggests otherwise.

In this episode, the host Adrian Ma and his NPR colleagues Indicator The podcast will examine the crackdown on immigration during the “Chinese Age of Alienation” and the economic impact it has had on the West.

For a deeper dive into the economic history of China’s era of alienation, check out the latest editions of Planet Money’s newsletter. in Part oneNPR’s Greg Rozalski covers the economic circumstances that led to the populist anti-China movement. in Part twohe explains the ways (both legal and illegal) by which the movement succeeded in displacing Chinese immigrants from the US and the economic consequences that resulted.

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