Daniel Costa

Daniel Costa is director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute. An attorney, his current areas of research include a wide range of labor migration issues, including the management of temporary foreign worker programs, both high- and less-skilled migration, immigrant workers’ rights, and forced migration, including refugee and asylum issues and the global migration crisis.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Daniel Costa

Labor

House GOP budget bill allocates $185 billion for Trump’s mass deportation plan, while ignoring workers
June 16, 2025 By Daniel Costa
Immigration enforcement would have 80 times more funding than labor standards enforcement.
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Opinion

Trump’s national emergency declaration not justified by the facts
February 15, 2019 By Daniel Costa
Trump has been so desperate to fund his signature campaign promise that he’s gone so far as to shut down the government over it for over a month, which caused federal employees to suffer and billions...
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Labor

Ending DACA lowers wages and revenue, degrades labor standards
September 6, 2017 By Daniel Costa
To call this decision tragic is an understatement. Not only is it inhumane, but the evidence is clear that DACA has positively benefited the U.S. labor market.
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Daniel Costa

LATEST ARTICLES BY Daniel Costa

House GOP budget bill allocates $185 billion for Trump’s mass deportation plan, while ignoring workers

Trump’s national emergency declaration not justified by the facts

Ending DACA lowers wages and revenue, degrades labor standards