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The far-left Wall Street Journal estimates that America’s immigrant population has declined by 773,000 since President Trump assumed office in January 2025. The far-left Washington Post puts the estimate of foreign-born workers leaving the workforce at around an even million.
As you would expect, both outlets lament that this is a bad thing, a sign of a “weakening labor market,” even as they are forced to admit that average “hourly wages accelerated, rising by 0.4 percent over the month, to $36.24 in May, as earnings continue to beat inflation in a boost to workers’ spending power.”
Breitbart’s John Binder reported that in “less than five months, President Donald Trump has reversed a trend that accelerated under former President Joe Biden — mainly that [under Biden] nearly all new jobs went to foreign-born workers who had recently arrived in the United States.”
Under Joe Biden, for every job gained by an American, 7.3 jobs went to migrants—legal and illegal.
So what accounts for that drop and this new dynamic?
Why, all of a sudden, would a million migrants flee the American workforce?
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Trump is using both carrot and stick to motivate illegal aliens to self-deport.
The carrot is a real incentive. The infamous CBP app created by the Biden administration to funnel countless unvetted illegals into the American interior is now called CBP Homeand encourages illegal aliens to self-deport. The app allows illegals to inform the government of their intent to leave the country. Illegals are also offered incentives to leave, including free airfare to their home country and $1,000 upon arrival.
The stick is even more persuasive.
First off, there is the ongoing fear of being deported. Then there are the workplace raids, which will motivate employers not to break the law by hiring illegals. Then there’s the cutting off of social services for illegals—housing and the like.
The less secure illegals feel in America and the harder it is for them to make a living and find a place to live, the more motivated they are to self-deport.
This is the way.
The average deportation costs around $17,000. Self-deportation costs the taxpayers a fraction of that.
www.breitbart.com
As you would expect, both outlets lament that this is a bad thing, a sign of a “weakening labor market,” even as they are forced to admit that average “hourly wages accelerated, rising by 0.4 percent over the month, to $36.24 in May, as earnings continue to beat inflation in a boost to workers’ spending power.”
Breitbart’s John Binder reported that in “less than five months, President Donald Trump has reversed a trend that accelerated under former President Joe Biden — mainly that [under Biden] nearly all new jobs went to foreign-born workers who had recently arrived in the United States.”
Under Joe Biden, for every job gained by an American, 7.3 jobs went to migrants—legal and illegal.
So what accounts for that drop and this new dynamic?
Why, all of a sudden, would a million migrants flee the American workforce?
…
Trump is using both carrot and stick to motivate illegal aliens to self-deport.
The carrot is a real incentive. The infamous CBP app created by the Biden administration to funnel countless unvetted illegals into the American interior is now called CBP Homeand encourages illegal aliens to self-deport. The app allows illegals to inform the government of their intent to leave the country. Illegals are also offered incentives to leave, including free airfare to their home country and $1,000 upon arrival.
The stick is even more persuasive.
First off, there is the ongoing fear of being deported. Then there are the workplace raids, which will motivate employers not to break the law by hiring illegals. Then there’s the cutting off of social services for illegals—housing and the like.
The less secure illegals feel in America and the harder it is for them to make a living and find a place to live, the more motivated they are to self-deport.
This is the way.
The average deportation costs around $17,000. Self-deportation costs the taxpayers a fraction of that.
Nolte: A Million Fewer Migrants in Workforce May Point to Increased Self-Deportations
There is no question that a million fewer migrants in the workforce benefits American workers and American wages.
www.breitbart.com
