The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown

ICE agents approach a house before detaining two people on Jan. 13 in Minneapolis. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Shortly after Inauguration Day in 2025, Planet Money visited Little Village , a predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Chicago. It felt oddly quiet for what was usually a bustling part of the city, almost like a ghost town. The Trump administration had signaled it was about to do big ICE raids there (and eventually did). …