Department of Homeland Security officials have claimed that surging deportations have caused rent prices to fall, and some economists agree with the assessment.

The federal department handling President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation recently declared rent reductions in major cities nationwide to be the result of fewer people living in the country.

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