Rule change deprives communities of talented, hard-working young people

Deporting these young immigrants would adversely affect the labour supply as well as consumer demand, writes Michael R Bloomberg

An executive’s job is to make tough decisions and convince people to follow you. That’s what CEOs are hired to do — and it’s what we elect presidents to do. By punting the legal status of young immigrants to the US Congress without offering his own proposal, President Donald Trump has failed an important test of executive leadership. But his failure is Congress’s opportunity.

The administration’s threat to rescind the legal status of 800,000 individuals brought to the US illegally by their parents would be a monumentally bad economic decision that — in its cruelty towards innocent people — would also be patently un-American.