"The government shutdown may have prevented the publication of September's job report, but we can be reasonably confident that when the numbers are known, they will further underscore the Trump administration's policy incoherence and remind us of all of the damage he is prepared to inflict on the American economy. The president will most likely be apoplectic over data confirming that the economy is generating very few new jobs (the payroll processor ADP estimated a loss of 32,000 private sector jobs in September)."
"But in the office of his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, champagne is likely to flow. For Miller, the dismal job growth is largely due to the war against immigrants he has masterminded from his perch on the White House's second floor. The cognitive disconnect ultimately stems from a stubborn misrepresentation preached across the administration about the impact of immigrants on the American economy: that every immigrant expelled from the workforce frees up a job to be readily filled by an unemployed American."
September's official jobs report was delayed by a government shutdown, and preliminary indicators suggest weak job creation, with ADP estimating a 32,000 private-sector loss. The president reacted angrily to earlier disappointing labor data and dismissed the Bureau of Labor Statistics leadership. Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller views poor job growth as evidence of successful immigration enforcement. Administration rhetoric misrepresents immigrants as occupying jobs that would simply transfer to unemployed Americans if immigrants were removed. Policy proposals from other officials suggested replacing migrant farmworkers with Medicaid recipients. Political figures celebrated apparent declines in immigrant labor that later proved implausible.
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