States in the Midwest are not uniformly prepared to implement immigration policies advanced by President Obama, potentially jeopardizing $650 million in additional tax revenues for their governments, according to a report from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The MacArthur-supported report highlights actions that state and city government agencies, immigrant-serving nonprofits, and legal service providers can take to ensure they are poised to support applications from hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers eligible for the President’s Expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.
