President Joe Biden’s economic policies aim to give more jobs to foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor market as hundreds of thousands of native-born Americans have dropped out of the workforce over the past year.
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data It shows that 637,000 foreign-born workers joined the U.S. labor market last year, while about 300,000 native-born Americans dropped out of the labor force.
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“Last year’s net job gains were all due to foreign-born workers (which the Labor Department acknowledges includes illegal immigrants), while native-born Americans lost a net 300,000 jobs,” Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni wrote for X.
“It’s no wonder Americans feel so bad about the economy. They [with] “Employment. Not only is U.S.-born employment below pre-pandemic trends by millions, it remains below pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, employment of foreign workers is up by millions compared to Feb-20, returning to trend,” Antoni wrote.
All of the net job gains over the past year have come from foreign-born workers (which the Labor Department acknowledges includes illegal immigrants), while native-born Americans have lost a net 300,000 jobs. pic.twitter.com/00JM18A8Uf
— Dr. EJ Antoni (@RealEJAntoni) June 7, 2024
No wonder Americans feel so bad about the economy: They don’t have the jobs. Native-born employment is not only millions below pre-pandemic trends, it’s even below pre-pandemic levels, while foreign worker employment is millions more now than in February 2020 and is back on trend. pic.twitter.com/n7q7NEE36c
— Dr. EJ Antoni (@RealEJAntoni) June 7, 2024
compare employment During former President Donald Trump’s term in office from May 2024 to February 2020, and right before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns devastated the country’s workforce, almost no native-born people were joining the workforce.
During the same period, approximately 3.2 million foreign-born workers joined the labor force.
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President Trump on Thursday said Biden’s policy of allowing millions of immigrants into the United States is an “economic war” against the nation’s working and middle classes, who are most likely to compete for jobs with new immigrants and will suffer the resulting lower wages.
“Biden’s border invasion is an all-out war on our nation’s working-class minorities and an all-out economic war on African-American and Hispanic American families,” Trump said. “In less than four years, Joe Biden has imported millions of low-wage immigrants, given them welfare, free health care and work permits, and undercut American wages.”
As Breitbart News reported, 6.6 million immigrants have been added to the U.S. population since Biden took office in late January 2021. The foreign-born population now stands at 51.6 million, the highest in U.S. history. In other words, 3 out of every 19 people living in the U.S. are foreign-born.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter. here.
