Posted on 09/08/2025 3:14:56 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The early economic returns on President Trump’s immigration enforcement are unambiguous: American workers are winning. After decades of being told that mass immigration was an economic necessity, the data from Trump’s first eight months in office tell a different story—one where reducing foreign worker competition translates directly into higher wages and improved living standards for native-born Americans.
The foreign-born workforce has contracted by nearly one million workers since January, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. This represents a complete reversal of the 2024 trend, when foreign-born workers provided essentially all U.S. job growth, adding over 2 million positions to their ranks.
Average hourly earnings have jumped 1.8 percent from January to August, an annualized growth rate of 3.1 percent. But the real story lies with production and non-supervisory workers—the 80 percent of the workforce most likely to compete directly with foreign-born labor. Their wages have risen 2.0 percent over seven months, annualizing to 3.4 percent growth. Production workers alone have gained nearly 0.8 percentage points in real wage growth—meaning their paychecks buy more goods and services than they did at the start of the year.
The business community, long addicted to cheap foreign labor, is adapting faster than expected. Rather than the economic catastrophe predicted, companies are discovering that higher productivity and better worker retention often offset higher labor costs.
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Crime,particularly in low income areas...welfare costs...and adverse economic effects for lower income Americans are among the most important reasons to get every damn wetback *out*!
Worked with a guy who was in a Help Desk support that was outsourced to India and part of his severance package was he had to train his replacement. About 6 months after the change, his company called him back into work for more $$ as they saw the outsourcing model wasn’t working for them.
Well whoop de do!
Pretty meaningless after you were forced to retire early due to illegals taking the jobs, and now are no longer in the workforce.
The illegals were supposed to be fully controlled after the Reagan amnesty, LOL!!!!!!
I wonder how much money we save for each illegal deported over their life time (assuming they have an average life span)
Do you have an opinion on the H1Bs?
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