https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/02/trump-americans-jobs-immigrants-labor/
President Donald Trump and White House leaders say that American workers are winning because of his immigration crackdown. But the data doesn’t back that up.
Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers. Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy.
In fact, data shows that U.S.-born workers are doing moderately worse under Trump than they were under President Joe Biden because the labor market has weakened — partly due to a sharp slowdown in immigration.
“The unemployment rate has been rising for both native-born and foreign-born adults,” said Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former Commerce Department economist.
Oh here we go again. Sure everyone has jobs but they're not the right kind of jobs or they don't count as jobs or whatever.
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