30 Million Migrants Flood U.S. Workforce, including 8 Million Illegals

The workforce is known for its competitive nature, and statistics have revealed the competition is getting increasingly tense — but for reasons people may not immediately expect. According to the Pew Research Center, since 2022, over 30 million immigrants — legal and illegal — have entered the country and obtained American jobs. That equates to a 20% increase over the last 15 years. For legal immigrants specifically, there’s been just shy of a 30% increase since 2007. By comparison, native-born Americans are on experiencing only a 10% increase in jobs.

What this data demonstrates is the reality that legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and visa workers alike are “outpacing” Americans in the workforce. Breitbart News reported, “The data shows that the federal government has used mass immigration as a labor policy to fill the U.S. workforce with millions of newly arrived migrants that working- and middle-class Americans are forced to compete against in the labor market.” They added that this “trend has been mostly prominent on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s watch.”

To break it down even further, Pew noted “lawful immigrants made up the majority of the immigrant workforce at 22.2 million,” making the number of unauthorized workers 8.3 million. Additionally, Heritage Economist E.J. Antoni shared on X, “Over the last year, 943k native-born Americans lost jobs on net, while foreign-born workers picked up almost 1.2 million jobs.”

Some experts have made clear that this problem should not be taken lightly. Robert Law of America First Policy Institute expressed in a comment to The Washington Stand, “The Biden-Harris administration’s border security and economic policies have significantly harmed the wages, economic opportunities, and security of the American people.”

For months, TWS and other outlets have reported on the dangers of the wide-open southern border — specifically during the Biden administration. A survey from late February revealed “over 80% of Americans consider illegal immigration a ‘serious’ problem,” with 61% considering it “very serious.” And from more recent data, results from a June Gallup poll found “nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults think the situation at the southern U.S. border is a crisis or a major problem.”

As evidenced over the last several months, Americans are concerned about their cities running “out of room” as they’re overwhelmed with incoming migrants. Several states, especially those with so-called “sanctuary cities,” have seen their schools, airports, and other such public facilities effected by the tsunami of migrants. The border crisis has created various other crises, including the increased concern of human-trafficking and terror threats. Bills have been introduced in Congress to protect election integrity as Democrats lobby for non-citizens to vote. Even health concerns have been raised as medical professionals point out that “any number of infectious and communicable diseases” could be streaming across the border.

In addition to these variables, states such as California have put taxpayer dollars toward funding gender procedures for illegals. And as Bloomberg previously highlighted, places like New York City are predicted “to spend a combined $9.1 billion housing migrants in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.” Americans have also been subjected to a shocking growth of violent crime, including murders, assault and harassment, theft and robbery, child endangerment, rape, and more. Keeping these realities in mind, it comes as no surprise that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has placed securing the border and mass deportation as the top two priorities on the new GOP platform.

Now, Americans have to grasp the fact that roughly eight million illegal immigrants now hold U.S. jobs. As Law, who also ran the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy office during the Trump administration, told TWS, the jobs being taken by illegals “are not jobs Americans won’t do.” As he noted, it seems Americans “are being sidelined by administration policies that put American workers last.” And to add to the chaos that’s already ensued, Law pointed out that “the Biden-Harris policy of giving work permits to millions of illegal aliens enriches the cartels and fuels human trafficking.”

And the reality is, he concluded, “Many of the legal work visa programs are easily manipulated to the detriment of American workers, but the current administration does not appear to be conducting any oversight.”