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Fortune
Eva Roytburg

Trump is deporting so many immigrants that it could cause inflation to hit 4% next year, top economist says

A man is surrounded by ICE agents who appear to be detaining him. (Credit: Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s new immigration policies—including deporting, the White House claims, about 750 immigrants a day on average—are helping drive up prices, Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi told Fortune.

He says if Trump continues deporting immigrants at the current rate, inflation will go from 2.5% to somewhere close to 4% “by the time it hits its peak early next year.”

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