{"id":204071,"date":"2026-04-21T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204071\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:25:10","slug":"rockefeller-institute-on-economic-impacts-of-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204071\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller Institute on economic impacts of deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Trump administration\u2019s signature policies is the mass deportation of immigrants lacking legal status. While there has been plenty of discussion about whether immigration has been a positive or negative for our country, there isn\u2019t much data on the effect of deporting immigrants lacking legal status. Does it make sense? How much does it cost? Is it a good thing for the economy? So, the Rockefeller Institute embarked on a study and the results are in.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Fein, a senior adviser and fellow of the Rockefeller Institute of Government&#8217;s \u201cCenter for Law and Policy Solutions,\u201d and scholar-in-residence with the \u201cInstitute on Immigration Research and Policy\u201d joined Capital Tonight to discuss the study.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Trump administration\u2019s signature policies is the mass deportation of immigrants lacking legal status. While there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,19662,2301,9,11,10,49,12,112,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-204071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","14":"tag-capital-tonight-staff","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-new-york-state","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}