President Trump has reversed a destructive trend set by the Biden administration that resulted in more foreign nationals being employed at the expense of U.S.-born workers. In June 2025, the number of U.S.-born citizens employed increased by 830,000, while that of foreign-born workers decreased by 348,000.
Since January 2025, the number of foreign nationals employed also reduced by over half a million, while that of U.S.-born citizens has increased by 2 million.
In November 2024, U.S. Bureau of Statistics data showed that all net job growth lauded by the Biden administration went to foreign-born workers, while the number of working U.S.-born citizens fell by 1.1 million.
Another 2024 report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that over 43 million Americans were out of work and were being slowly replaced by foreign-born workers.
“This is relevant to the immigration debate because one of the arguments for allowing in so many legal immigrants, or even tolerating illegal immigration, is that there are not enough workers,” the CIS report stated. “But this ignores the enormous increase in the number of working-age people not in the labor force.” Subsequently, CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota suggested that controlling immigration would increase wages and encourage more Americans to take those jobs.
“Relying on immigrant workers has allowed our country to ignore the decades-long decline in labor force participation,” said Camarota.
Similarly, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stated that “mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers,” and would result in “higher wages with better benefits to fill these jobs.”
In Omaha, Nebraska, people from the local community rushed to fill in jobs left vacant after ICE agents raided a meat-packing factory and arrested over 70 illegal immigrants working at the facility.
“Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year,” far left media outlet NBC, which had demonized the ICE raids, found out.
Nonetheless, several tech companies, including Microsoft, have reportedly submitted thousands of H-1B visa requests to replace recently fired American workers with foreign-born workers amid mass layoffs.
“The report claims that the company has filed a total of 14,181 foreign labor requests this year, 82% of which are being offered pay below the local market rate,” the Financial Express reported. This comes after the company recently fired 2,300 American tech workers, including over 800 software engineers.
