Here’s what the Bureau of Labor Statistics data show: Some 130.4 million native-born people were employed in May. That’s an increase of nearly 4.5 million since May 2021, shortly after Biden took office, though it’s down nearly 300,000 from May 2023. (The data is not seasonally adjusted, so we must look at the same month in each year for an accurate comparison. In January 2021, about 123 million native-born people were employed.)
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Late in Biden’s term, jobs for Americans declined, and jobs for foreign-born workers increased, suggesting that the longer Biden kept the border open, the more jobs immigrants took from Americans.
In other words, immigrants indeed filled many jobs that would otherwise have gone to Americans, and this obviously had the effect of holding down wages.
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The job creation numbers are skewed–employment numbers ballooned in Biden’s term due to the recovery from COVID, but that in itself doesn’t explain the disparity.
Under Trump, the reality is much different. Not only are Americans outpacing foreign-born workers in jobs, but the number of jobs held by foreign-born workers is decreasing at a pretty fast rate.
Is it any surprise that, of all his policies, Trump’s actions on immigration are the most popular? Americans have rightly been feeling left behind, and arguably, Trump won because of his stance on immigration.
Democrats have signaled they are not going to budge on this issue. The more Trump does to fix the immigration problem, the more Democrats are digging in and fighting him.
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And their Brownshirts are out attacking, and in some cases killing, law enforcement just doing their jobs.
It’s too early to predict the political fallout for Democrats from their increasing immigration extremism–the economy always trumps all other issues–but it can’t be good for them.
