Jobs for Americans Up, Jobs for Immigrants Down

One of the most striking statistics to emerge during the Biden administration was the ratio of jobs created by American citizens and those filled by immigrants. While the claim that all the new jobs went to immigrants is an exaggeration, indeed, immigrants filled more than twice as many new jobs as their proportion of the population would have predicted. 

According to CNN, in Biden’s first 3 1/2 years in office (this is when their fact check of Trump was published), under Biden, foreign-born workers outpaced native-born workers in filling jobs:

Here’s what the Bureau of Labor Statistics data show: Some 130.4 million native-born people were employed in May. That’s an increase of nearly 4.5 million since May 2021, shortly after Biden took office, though it’s down nearly 300,000 from May 2023. (The data is not seasonally adjusted, so we must look at the same month in each year for an accurate comparison. In January 2021, about 123 million native-born people were employed.)

Roughly 30.9 million foreign-born people held jobs in May, up 5.1 million from May 2021 and 637,000 since May 2023. (In January 2021, 25.3 million of the foreign-born were employed.)

Late in Biden’s term, jobs for Americans declined, and jobs for foreign-born workers increased, suggesting that the longer Biden kept the border open, the more jobs immigrants took from Americans. 

In other words, immigrants indeed filled many jobs that would otherwise have gone to Americans, and this obviously had the effect of holding down wages. Given that 16% of the US population is foreign-born, that’s a pretty startling statistic. No matter how much you hem and haw about demographics or “jobs Americans won’t do,” when 16% of the population snags over half the new jobs, it should shock you. 

The job creation numbers are skewed–employment numbers ballooned in Biden’s term due to the recovery from COVID, but that in itself doesn’t explain the disparity. 

WOW. New jobs report reveals that American-born workers gained 2 MILLION jobs since January, while foreign-born workers lost 543,000 pic.twitter.com/F7YrHyKWAY

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 9, 2025

Under Trump, the reality is much different. Not only are Americans outpacing foreign-born workers in jobs, but the number of jobs held by foreign-born workers is decreasing at a pretty fast rate. 

Under President Trump, native-born employment has increased by more than 2 million, while foreign-born employment has declined by over half a million! pic.twitter.com/8AYV3l28mn

— GOP (@GOP) July 9, 2025

Is it any surprise that, of all his policies, Trump’s actions on immigration are the most popular? Americans have rightly been feeling left behind, and arguably, Trump won because of his stance on immigration. 

Unveiling a Seismic Shift: New Jobs Report Shows American-Born Workers Surge with 2 Million Jobs Gained, Foreign-Born Lose 543,000, as Cygnal Poll Reveals 61% of Americans Demand Mass Deportation, Sending Democrats into Panic Over Losing 27 House Seats in 2030! RETWEET

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— Christopher Calvin Reid (@ReidFirm) July 9, 2025

Democrats have signaled they are not going to budge on this issue. The more Trump does to fix the immigration problem, the more Democrats are digging in and fighting him. 

Literally fighting. Democratic politicians are picking fights with ICE, spiriting illegal aliens away using unlawful means, and whipping up their base by comparing ICE to the Gestapo and deportation detention centers to concentration camps. 

This has been one of the most persistent issues in recent years and especially under Trump’s administration. Support has consistently remained high. In fact, we haven’t seen it drop below 58% at any point when we polled the question. https://t.co/sshbwGUm1G

— Quantus Insights (@QuantusInsights) July 9, 2025

And their Brownshirts are out attacking, and in some cases killing, law enforcement just doing their jobs. 

It’s too early to predict the political fallout for Democrats from their increasing immigration extremism–the economy always trumps all other issues–but it can’t be good for them.