Job Growth Report Highlights Shift Towards U.S.-Born Workers

The recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals an ongoing trend: as employment for foreign-born workers continues to decrease, all new job growth is being absorbed by U.S.-born individuals.

Once again, the report indicates that while U.S.-born workers are finding more job opportunities, foreign-born employees are exiting the workforce. This marks a significant change from the previous administration, which, under President Biden, had emphasized a reliance on incoming immigrants to fill open positions in the country.

The report highlights that net job growth is now solely benefiting American citizens, contrasting sharply with the earlier scenario where job creation was marked by a blend of government and foreign employment. According to the Department of Labor, “Under the current administration, jobs created are all in the private sector, exclusively for native Americans.”

White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt noted that since the Trump administration began, all job growth has occurred in the private sector and among American-born individuals, which is, according to her, the right direction.

Economist E. J. Antoni emphasized that in the past year, U.S.-born employment rose by 2.6 million, while the number of employed foreign-born individuals saw a slight decline. He went on to state that all net job gains this year have favored Americans, marking this November as a historic peak for jobs held by native-born citizens.

Looking back at the Biden era, a study from the Center for Immigration Studies pointed out that while over 4.7 million jobs were created for immigrants during that time, only about 645,000 jobs were allocated to native-born Americans. In fact, this translates to roughly 7.3 jobs for immigrants for every single job created for an American citizen.