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Exclusive—Peter Navarro: Virtually All New Jobs Under Joe Biden Were Taken by Illegal Immigrants
Breitbart ^ | 19 Mar 2025 | John Binder

Posted on 03/19/2025 12:39:22 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Peter Navarro, the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for President Donald Trump, tells Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that virtually all new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived migrants who poured across the United States-Mexico border.

During an exclusive sit-down interview with Marlow at the White House for The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Navarro explained mass immigration’s close relationship to free trade, where the cost of labor plummets, dragging down Americans’ wages.

“Both capital and labor are mobile, okay. Now think about that. So, depending on conditions, you’re in Britain, right, labor is mobile, and the next thing you know, you got the world coming in to your factories willing to undercut your wages by a significant amount,” Navarro said. “And then soon, everybody in these blue-collar English towns are speaking Polish or Czechoslovakian and whatever.”

Under former President Joe Biden, Navarro said, roughly all new job growth went to illegal aliens and legal immigrants, not American citizens.

“Immigration is fine if it benefits a country, but [not] if it totally destroys a country,” Navarro said.

“I mean, interesting statistic here — and I was surprised that the Biden regime even published it — if you look at the net new job creation during the Biden administration, virtually all of the new jobs were taken by illegal [immigrants],” Navarro continued. “And virtually all the people who lost their jobs, because it was a net, net kind of thing, were American citizens. I mean, that is freaking insane … That’s the Ricardian free trade model.”

Indeed, Breitbart News tracked such job figures throughout Biden’s term, finding the exact trend Navarro described.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexmarlow; breitbart; elonmusk; illegals; peternavarro; tariff; tariffs

As of April 2024, 43 million working-age native-born Americans from 16 to 64 years old were not in the labor force — about 8.5 million more than in the year 2000, CIS researchers found last year.

More specifically, the share of working-age native-born American men not in the labor force has increased from 11 percent in April 1960 to 22 percent in April of this year. If today’s labor force participation rate for these men matched the 1960s, there would be about 9 million more men in the workforce.


1 posted on 03/19/2025 12:39:22 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

I believe it.


2 posted on 03/19/2025 1:13:09 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SoConPubbie

We are just scratching the surface of decades of treason by team Biden and co. Including Obama. Obama needed Biden to access the scam apparatus Biden had in place.


3 posted on 03/19/2025 1:34:55 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Those that weren’t taken by migrants were new gov’t employees.

As far as the decline in labor force participation rates, try decreasing transfer payments (e.g., welfare, food stamps, rent subsidies, etc) and see what happens. The gov’t’s “social net” is too wide and remains in place too long. Do you really need 26 weeks to find another job...if you’re seriously looking?


4 posted on 03/19/2025 1:57:39 PM PDT by econjack
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To: SoConPubbie

I wonder why they use the lowest age for the statistic as 16. Almost all 16-year-olds are still in high school and not working. At least use 18.


5 posted on 03/19/2025 2:19:50 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: econjack
Do you really need 26 weeks to find another job...if you’re seriously looking?

Yes.

The job market is the worst I have ever experienced. My belief is that it is politics this time. At least at the high-end of IT. If you are white, and a male, you have a very difficult time getting a job.

I have never been out of work for more than 60 days. I am working on 9 months this time.
6 posted on 03/19/2025 2:24:02 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: SoConPubbie
"...roughly all new job growth went to illegal aliens and legal immigrants, not American citizens."

Jobs were sent to other countries, and people from other countries are brought here to work.

7 posted on 03/19/2025 3:02:07 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SoConPubbie

I believe it. It lines perfectly with left ideology to replace Americans, especially whites


8 posted on 03/19/2025 4:36:16 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: Tired of Taxes

Same with the hospitals. Lots of nurses are foreign, I guess here on visas. I worked with several, two who came from Korea. They both worked like crazy and bought two houses each and sold them when the market went up. I don’t work there anymore but I would imagine they continued to do this sort of thing.

They were not interested at all in loving America. One of the other’s married an American and bragged to me now she could stay here.

That’s the Biden and Obama America. Foreigners taking over our country little by little.


9 posted on 03/19/2025 4:54:44 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: SoConPubbie

Most jobs “created” under Biden went to foreign nationals. Most jobs were government jobs. American citizens got the leftovers.

You can go to FRED and look at the number of Federal Employees as they increased over Biden’s final year in office. It’s as if they were deliberately loading up the federal employee “resistance. Note: You can see a large temporary increase in 3rd quarter of 2020. I assume that was Covid related federal hiring.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CEU9091000001


10 posted on 03/19/2025 5:00:51 PM PDT by CFW
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To: Beowulf9

I know there’s a shortage of teachers, and many schools are now hiring foreign teachers.

Is there a shortage of nurses, too? If so, I’d be surprised.

Most of us are here because our foreign ancestors emigrated here. So, we want to welcome immigrants who love this country.

But, right now, there aren’t enough jobs to go around. Many Americans are barely eking out a living, too often with little gig jobs.


11 posted on 03/19/2025 6:06:22 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SoConPubbie

What’s your background?


12 posted on 03/19/2025 6:35:44 PM PDT by econjack
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13 posted on 03/20/2025 8:39:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Parley Baer

Biden hated American citizens up until the end - we were the only group that didn’t pay off him and his drug addicted whore monger son.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 11:30:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's cheaper to 'rent a mob' for a Town Hall than buy thugs to burn down cities. Do by invitation...)
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To: SoConPubbie

bttt


15 posted on 03/20/2025 11:38:35 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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