Job Growth for Foreign-Born Workforce Falls, Native-Born Americans Gain
17 Jul 2018
Washington, DC

Job growth for foreign-born workers in the United States have fallen for the second consecutive month, the latest employment data reveals.

In the month of June, foreign-born workers saw 2.28 percent year-to-year job growth, while native-born American workers saw 1.38 percent. In May, Breitbart News noted that growth in jobs for foreign-born workers had recorded in at about 3 percent. In April, job growth for foreign-born workers came in at 3.6 percent.

This decline in growth for foreign-born workers over the months of May and June is welcome news for native-born American workers who are seeing steady economic growth for the second month in a row.

While job gains for native-born Americans continue to grow slower than foreign-born workers, the economic gap between the groups is beginning to close. In May, like June, job growth for native-born Americans grew just below 1.5 percent.

This job growth is far more positive than the measly less-than-one-percent economic gains that were made for the native-born American population in the month of April, at the peak of an illegal immigration surge at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The steady gains for American workers are coupled with a drop in illegal immigration at the southern border, Breitbart Texas noted, thanks to President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy where all border crossers are being criminally prosecuted.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

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National Data | June Jobs: Displacement, Immigrant Workers Still Ebbing—But Obama-Era Damage Not Yet Reversed
Edwin S. Rubenstein
July 09, 2018, 10:30 PM

June brings some good news: the shocking surge in immigrant displacement of American workers and in the immigrant workforce, which began in January and completely undid the improvement we had begun hopefully to call the “Trump Effect,” continues to ebb. And apprehensions on the southwestern border continue to fall, suggesting that illegal immigration is receding from the peaks reached this spring. But the damage of the Obama years has still not begun to be undone.

For the second consecutive month, all job growth went to native-born American workers. But their June job gain—114,000—was a fraction of the 1.4 million gain recorded in May. However, for the first time this year the immigrant working age population rose by less than 1 million year-over-year. Still, the June increase —962,000—was higher than that of any June since 2015. In contrast, remember that the immigrant workforce actually shrank in the last five months of 2017.

Of course, both displacement and immigrant workforce growth are still high in absolute terms and could surge again anytime. Only legislation, above all an immigration moratorium, can secure the fruits of the current economic expansion for Americans.

In June: