Unauthorized immigrants include those who enter the country without legal permission and those who overstay their visas.
?When we started this study last summer, our interest was to study the economic role of undocumented immigrants,? Ortega said.
Trump ran for president on promises to crack down on undocumented immigrants, some of whom he has described as competing with lawful U.S. residents for jobs and contributing to rising crime in some cities.
Following through on plans to deport undocumented workers would hit industries that already complain of worker shortages, said Ethan Harris, Bank of America Merrill Lynch?s head of global economics in New York.
President Donald Trump?s sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants will strain an already tight U.S. job market, with one study suggesting that removing all of them would cost the economy as much as $5 trillion over 10 years.
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