Congressional Budget Office: 1.6 million fewer immigrants to enter US this year amid Trump policies

The Congressional Budget Office is predicting the total net immigration for the U.S. will be 1.6 million people smaller this year than it projected in January. 

Net immigration is the number of immigrants coming into the country minus the number leaving.

Two major factors contributing to that downward trend Presdent Trump's immigration policies and congressional Republicans' tax-and-spending package that Trump signed into law in January that is estimated to result in the removal of 290,000 immigrants and the voluntary exit of 30,000 others over the next five years, according to Politico.
 

The CBO expects to have estimates next year on how reducing the number of incoming immigrants will affect the federal budget.

Last year, the office estimated that the increase in immigration beginning in 2001 would grow federal revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars over several years, mostly from individual income taxes and payroll taxes. However, less immigration is expected to shrink federal spending.