Earlier this year, the Trump administration shut down USAID and slashed spending on international aid and development. Development advocates worried — and continue to worry — that this will hurt the economies of developing nations and have deadly consequences for some of the poorest people on Earth. That story generated tons of headlines earlier this year.

But Dean Yang, an economist at the University of Michigan , argues "the anti-immigration actions of the Trump administration are likely to have an even bigger negative effect on the economic development of the world's poor countries" — and that story has gotten much less attention.

It's not just that migration is one of the best known mechanisms to lift people out of poverty. Studies suggest those who move from poor countri

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