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Apart from the humanitarian toll, mass deportations could devastate the Mexican economy: Each year, immigrants in the United States ship some $60 billion back to relatives and others in Mexico.

Trump’s promised mass deportation of undocumented immigrants alone would devastate California’s economy — and the national and global economies as a result — if implemented, Newsom said, with “impacts from valley to valley, Silicon Valley to Central Valley.”

Trump will also devastate the American economy through mass deportations of millions of “illegal aliens.”

From Salon

The US says it acknowledges Israeli concerns about UNRWA, but that restrictions on it would “devastate” the humanitarian effort in Gaza and the education and welfare of tens of thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

From BBC

And he blasted Garvey for backing Trump, saying Trump’s plan is for mass deportations that will devastate the country and immigrant communities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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