Native-Born Workers Rise by 2 Million Under Trump to a New Record High, as Foreign-Born Plunge by 1.6 Million

The Liberty Daily ^ | November 20, 2025 | Tyler Durden

[Whatever Works]

One can debate how effective Trump has been in following up on his various campaign promises, but one place where he has been steadfast is reversing the Biden admin’s disastrous labor policies which favored foreign-born workers (mostly illegal aliens) over native-born workers.

Today’s jobs report, which had something for everyone, including forecast-busting payrolls offset by the highest unemployment rate in 4 years at 4.4% (driven by another jump in black unemployment), was indisputably strong when it comes to one thing: the rotation from foreign born workers to domestic ones.

To wit: in September, the number of native-born workers surged by 676K (after the August drop of 561K), while foreign-born workers dropped by 70K.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: employment

[Whatever Works]

Good news!

[thegagline]

Thank Trump and ICE.

[dangus]

Importantly, the same BLS doesn’t recognize that the workforce has shrunk over the past year. Instead, it recalibrated the size of the workforce UP almost 2 million at once in January. Even in two months since July (these reports are slow), the workforce grew 1.2 million.

Now, unemployment is calculated with the same sort of statistical projection as the workforce, so I’m not claiming there are 3 million fewer unemployed. But I *am* claiming that this does mean that all those immigrants who left the country were, as a matter of fact, taking jobs from Americans, and that creating 400,000 jobs despite immigration enforcement removing 1.6 million workers is a pretty damned huge achievement.

When the GDP is calculated, it will fail to recognize the population drop meaning it will miss the per-capita GDP by almost 1%.

[Uncle Miltie]

I bin sayin’ this fer months!

When about 2,000,000 illegal aliens are ICE- or Self-Deported, you aren’t going to see much net job growth. Because Americans will take the jobs the illegals had and the counts will remain roughly the same.