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By Gordon Duff for TID/Iceland,
Illegal Aliens Weren’t Raping Kids, They Were Paying Taxes, Paying Social Security and Holding America Together and without them….WE ARE ROYALLY SCREWED (Truth Bomb)
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The arithmetic is simple. The politics were insane. The outcome was entirely predictable. And three million families paid the price.
Let’s start with a question the administration still can’t answer: if these people were such a drain on the economy, why does everything cost more now that they’re gone?
Who Really Does the Work
For years, the talking point was simple: “Americans will do these jobs if the wages are right.” The Labor Secretary went on Fox News and assured everyone that Americans were “willing to do the job” — they just needed “the opportunity.”
The data said otherwise.
Before the enforcement surge, according to the Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey, 42% of crop farmworkers were undocumented. Another 26% were authorized immigrants. That means two-thirds of the people who pick your food were born in another country.
In construction, immigrants made up 26% of the workforce nationally. In Texas, it was 40%. In Miami, 75%. Of that group, about half were undocumented. That’s hundreds of thousands of framers, roofers, concrete finishers, electricians, and plumbers.
In home healthcare, immigrants were nearly 40% of the workforce — more than 220,000 people who care for the elderly and disabled because American workers won’t do that work for that pay.
These weren’t “takers.” These were the people holding the damn country together.
The uncomfortable truth — the one nobody in Washington wants to say out loud — is that Americans don’t apply for these jobs. Not because they’re “too good” for them, though that’s part of it. Because the wages are too low, the conditions are too brutal, and the locations are too remote. Employers don’t pay more because they don’t have to — there’s always someone desperate enough to take the job. Someone who crossed a desert. Someone who will sleep in a bug-infested shack. Someone who can’t complain because complaining means deportation.
So the entire American economy was built on the backs of people who couldn’t say no.
And when the government came for them — with guns, with military transports, with tactical gear — they didn’t get replaced by proud American workers. They got replaced by nothing.
The Fields Are Rotting
Let’s start with food, because it’s the most basic human need.
Agriculture was the canary in the coal mine. When you remove millions of workers from a sector that depends on them, you don’t get a “labor shortage.” You get a vacuum.
In California’s Central Valley — the breadbasket of America — farmers reported that ICE raids scared off 60% of their workforce for two to three months. Strawberries rotted in the fields. Lettuce wilted. Millions of dollars of produce — food that could have fed American families — was left to decay.
One Orange County farmer told researchers that he lost nearly two-thirds of his crew. An Oregon farmer estimated losses of $300,000 in unharvested crops.
Agricultural employment dropped by 155,000 workers from March to July 2025 as deportations ramped up. A statewide survey of California farmers found that 14% of them reduced production — planting fewer acres or watching crops spoil because there weren’t enough workers to harvest them.
And the prices? Lettuce went up 32.1% in one year. Apples rose 7.1%. Fresh citrus climbed 6.3%. Canned fruits and vegetables — most of which are produced domestically — saw increases of 7.4%.
The administration promised to lower grocery prices. They made them higher. And every American family pays the difference.
The farmers who voted for this? They’re standing in empty orchards, staring at rotting fruit, and wondering what the hell happened. What happened is they got exactly what they asked for.
The House That Fear Destroyed
Now let’s talk about the roof over your head — or the alarming lack thereof.
The United States was already short 3.7 million housing units before the deportations started. That’s not a small gap. That’s a chasm. Rent is unaffordable in most major cities. Homeownership is out of reach for millions of young families. Homelessness is spiking.
And the solution? Build more housing. But to build more housing, you need builders.
Immigrants made up roughly 26% of the construction workforce nationally. In Texas, it was 40%. In Dallas and Houston, it was 60%. These aren’t just “workers.” They are framers, roofers, drywall installers, concrete finishers, electricians, plumbers, and heavy equipment operators. They are the people who actually build things.
And we just took millions of them out of the labor pool — forcibly, suddenly, and with no replacement plan.
Here’s what that looks like on the ground:
In the Northeast, new permits for single-family homes fell 23.5% from March 2025 to June 2026.
New home prices in the Northeast rose 15.4% in the same period.
In South Texas, framing prices doubled in one year because of labor shortages.
In Massachusetts, subcontractors raised prices 30 to 40 percent due to worker shortages.
Nationwide, nearly half of all U.S. metro areas saw construction job losses in the first half of 2026. Riverside-San Bernardino alone lost 7,200 construction jobs — and those weren’t “lost” to the market. They were removed by federal agents.
One developer in Massachusetts told The Boston Globe that a single WhatsApp alert about ICE presence can render a job site a “ghost town” for the day. Workers check their phones constantly. They live in fear. And when workers are afraid, they don’t show up. When workers don’t show up, houses don’t get built. When houses don’t get built, prices go up.
The South Texas Builders Association CEO — a Trump voter — warned lawmakers: “South Texas will never be red again.”
He voted for the wrecking ball. Now he’s standing in the rubble.
The Social Security Suicide Bomb
Now let’s talk about the one that should make every retiree, every near-retiree, and every young person paying into the system absolutely furious.
Undocumented immigrants pay into Social Security.
This is a fact that conservatives refuse to acknowledge and liberals don’t emphasize enough. Undocumented workers pay payroll taxes — Social Security and Medicare — through their paychecks. They do this using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) or, in many cases, fake Social Security numbers that still result in taxes being withheld.
In 2022 alone, undocumented immigrants contributed $25.7 billion to Social Security and $6.4 billion to Medicare. Total federal, state, and local taxes from undocumented immigrants in 2022 were $97 billion.
They pay into a system they can never draw from. They are subsidizing your retirement.
Now remove 3 million of them from the workforce. Remove their wages. Remove their payroll tax contributions. Remove the money they put into the system.
And what happens?
Social Security’s solvency crisis just got significantly worse.
The Social Security trust fund was already projected to be depleted by 2034 or 2035, at which point benefits would need to be cut by about 20-25%. That was bad enough. Now you’ve just removed millions of young, working-age contributors — the very demographic the system needs to stay afloat.
The administration claims to be “protecting” Social Security for Americans. But by deporting the people who are paying into it, they are accelerating its collapse.
This isn’t just stupid. It’s monumentally self-destructive. And the retirees who voted for this? They’re going to be the ones holding the bag.
Did American Workers Get the Jobs?
This was the administration’s core promise: deport the immigrants, and American workers will step into those jobs. Higher wages. Better jobs. The “blue-collar boom.”
It didn’t happen.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder analyzed federal labor data against ICE arrest data and found that heightened ICE activity did not create more jobs or higher wages for U.S.-born workers. Instead, employment declined among both undocumented immigrants and U.S.-born men with a high school degree or less.
One researcher put it bluntly: “For every six male undocumented workers lost, the labor market also lost one male U.S.-born worker.”
The reason? Employers didn’t respond by raising wages to attract Americans. Their demand for workers contracted instead. They didn’t pay more; they just did less.
In regions with ICE surges, employment among likely undocumented immigrants dropped 4% on average — not just from deportation, but from a “chilling effect” where people stopped working out of fear. A Pew survey found 43% of foreign-born respondents feared deportation for themselves or someone close to them.
The American worker wasn’t saved. The American worker was collateral damage.
The Chilling Effect on Entire Communities
The damage extended far beyond the workers themselves.
Minneapolis officials estimated the city’s economy lost $203 million due to falling restaurant, hotel, and retail revenues, as well as lost wages. States with enhanced ICE enforcement saw aggregate credit and debit card spending drop by 1.7 percentage points compared to those that did not.
In the Twin Cities, “bustling neighborhoods have turned into ghost towns.” Small businesses closed. Restaurants shifted to takeout only and kept doors locked to prevent ICE agents from entering without warrants. Schools reported falling enrollment. Entire communities went into hiding.
Communities that were once thriving are now paralyzed. And the irony? Many of these communities voted for the people doing the paralyzing.
The Human Cost They Won’t Count
This isn’t an economic crisis. It’s a humanitarian catastrophe dressed up in policy language.
We’re talking about:
3 million families torn apart. Parents separated from children — many of whom are U.S. citizens by birth.
Children coming home from school to find their parents gone.
People with legal status — some with Social Security numbers and work authorization — caught up in sweeps and detained or killed.
At least 10 people killed in ICE operations since the ramp-up, including two U.S. citizens.
Entire communities living in fear, afraid to leave their homes, afraid to go to work, afraid to send their kids to school.
These people were the only Americans willing to do the hard work. They picked the food. They built the houses. They cared for the elderly. They paid taxes. They were us — just with different last names and darker skin.
And we deported them anyway.
The Bottom Line
The policy was supposed to lower costs and create jobs for Americans. It did the opposite.
Metric – Before – After – Direction
Agricultural employment Baseline -155,000 workers Worse
Crop production Baseline 14-15% reduction Worse
Produce prices Baseline +5-12% Worse
Single-family home permits Baseline -23.5% Worse
New home prices Baseline +15.4% Worse
Framing costs Baseline +100% Worse
Subcontractor prices Baseline +30-40% Worse
U.S.-born employment Baseline Decreased Worse
Consumer spending Baseline -1.7% to -6.2% Worse
Social Security tax base Baseline Contributors removed Worse
Food prices Baseline Lettuce +32%, apples +7% Worse
The Trump administration spent billions to remove millions of workers who were building houses, harvesting food, and paying taxes — and the result is an economy that is materially worse than when it started.
The Only Question Left
So where does that leave us?
We can rage at the cruelty. We can scream at the stupidity. We can point out the staggering self-destruction of it all.
But the only question that really matters is this: Will we learn anything from this?
Because the economy doesn’t care about your politics. It doesn’t care about your grievances. It doesn’t care about your culture wars.
It only cares about math.
And the math is simple:
3 million families removed. Agriculture in collapse. Construction in collapse. Social Security bleeding out. Food prices up. Housing prices up. American workers worse off than before.
The result? Nothing good.
And the people who did this are still in power, still claiming victory, still blaming everyone else for the mess they made.
They are the only Americans who refused to do the work — and now they’re making the rest of us pay for it.
Source: https://www.theinteldrop.org
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