ICE Activity in 2025 and Its Impact on Immigrant Families
Using newly released administrative data, this project characterizes the change in ICE activity in 2025 and compares it to the prior decade. We then match this to survey data to investigate the impacts of these changes on immigrants’ economic and social outcomes. We find that immigrants remaining in the U.S. are less likely to work. We also find some evidence that U.S.-born teens in mixed-status families are more likely to work and less likely to be enrolled full-time in school, possibly to make up for the lost income due to immigration policies’ impacting parental earnings. This is part of a broader project studying the effect of ICE activity in Trump 2.0 in as close to real-time as possible.
Chloe East is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. East's interests are in Public, Labor, and Health economics. Specifically, she studies U.S. government policies—including safety net and social insurance programs, as well as immigration policy—and examines how they affect outcomes of both foreign-born and U.S.-born people.
