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Representatives of industries that rely on undocumented workers fear that President-elect Donald Trump's promise to deport those workers will result in higher wages and a tighter labor market, according to Bloomberg.
According to Hanley Wood's Chief Economist Mark Boud, up to 20% of construction workers are undocumented, and removing them from the workforce could cause wages to double in the short-term and back employers into a corner as they try to navigate an already-low unemployment rate of 2%.