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academic achievement." The unintended consequences of the interim rule will likely have a significant and similar impact on Latino youth and communities. While the IFR estimates this registration requirement to directly impact 2 to 3 million people, the racial profiling that is likely to occur as a result of enforcing this new process will have detrimental effects on the larger 63 million Latino residents residing in the U.S.."," By enforcing a"carry your papers" rule and subjecting Latino and other immigrant communities to likely racial profiling, there will be deleterious consequences for the U.S. economy and workforce participation. Immigrants contribute billions to our economy. In 2023, undocumented immigrants contributed $89.8 billion in federal, state, and local taxes and $167 million in the housing market.14 Additionally, immigrants have supplemented the workforce. They make up 25% of entrepreneurs and help fill workforce shortages for essential professions. The Trump Administration's actions within the last two months have already impacted the labor force across the country.15 Due to fears of deportation, individuals are reportedly missing work, impacting American businesses and leading to higher costs of living for American consumers. This IFR will intensify the existing climate of fear and anxiety experienced by immigrant communities and exacerbate the negative economic realities Americans face. Contrary to the claim that The Administration's actions on immigrants put America first, the Interim Final Rule undermines uniquely American constitutional protections and civil liberties, damages the American economy, and destabilizes whole communities, ultimately undermining key parts of what makes our country great. The IFR Seeks to Enforce an Outdated and Debunked Statute Without Consideration of Modern-Day Norms on Immigration Law and Policy Further, the Rule constitutes a marked departure from the intended and actual use of the registration statute over the past 80 years. In fact, the United States has effectively abandoned universal non-citizen registration for the past seventy-five years.16 Specifically, the United States completely abandoned the World War II-era independent registration process reflected in the 11 Luo,T.,&Escalante, C.L. (2021). Stringent immigration enforcement and the mental health and health-risk behaviors of Hispanic adolescent students in Arizona.Health economics,30(1), 86-103. https:Hdoi.org/10.1002/hec.4178 12 U.S.Department of Health and Human Services,Hispanic/Latino Health. https:Hminoriiyhealth.hhs. og v/Wspaniclatino-health#:—:teat--According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20Census,of%20the %20total%20U.S.%20population. 13 U.S.Department of Homeland Security,Estimates of the Unauthorized Alien Population Residing in the United States. https:Hohss.dhs. og v/topics/immigration/unauthorized-aliens/estimates-unauthorized-alien-population- residing united 14American Immigration Council,Immigrants Keep the Economy Strong As Congress Considers Wasting Billions on Mass Deportations. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/immigrants-keep-economy-stron -ag s-congress-debates-mass- deportation 15 New York Times,A Chill Sets In for Undocumented Workers, and Those Who Hire Them. https://www.nytime s.com/2025/03/09/business/economy/immigrant-workers-deportation-fears.html 16 Nancy Morawetz&Natasha Fernandez-Silber,Immigration Law and the Myth of Comprehensive Registration,48 U.C.Davis L.Rev. 141 (2014),available at hUs:Hlawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/sites/ /fg files/dgynskl5026/files/ media/documents/48-1—Morawetz—Fernandez-Silber.pdf