The job growth trend since 2019 in the United States has predominantly benefited recently arrived migrants, while working-class American men continue to fall out of the labor force, according to an analysis by Steven Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies. This development is largely aligned with President Joe Biden’s agenda aimed at expanding the labor market through mass immigration rather than attracting American workers sidelined from the workforce back in.
Between 2019 and now, approximately 75% of all job growth in the United States has been attributed to newly arrived migrants, both illegal aliens and legal immigrants. Conversely, during the same period, fewer than one million Americans have entered the workforce. Camarota writes, “The government’s household survey shows that there were only 971,000 more U.S.-born Americans employed in May 2024 compared to May 2019 prior to the pandemic, while the number of employed immigrants has increased by 3.2 million.
Simultaneously, the labor participation of working-class American men continues to decrease. For American men aged 25 to 54 years old with only a high school diploma, their workforce participation rate dropped from 95.7% in 1960 to 81.6% in 2024. Similarly, for those American men without a bachelor’s degree, their labor participation rate declined from 95.8% in 1960 to 84.8% in 2024. Over the course of 64 years, among prime-age American men across education levels, workforce participation has fallen nearly eight percentage points. The labor force participation rate — the share working or looking for work — has declined dramatically among U.S.-born men since the 1960s, particularly for those without a bachelor’s degree,” Camarota notes.
For years, Breitbart News has documented the decline in labor participation among American men while President Biden drives the growth of the workforce through an increasing number of migrants who are granted work permits upon being released into the U.S. interior. For instance, since 2023, nearly 300,000 native-born Americans have exited the workforce, while about 637,000 migrants have been added to it.
Biden has played a significant role in driving the foreign-born population, thereby increasing the number of foreign-born workers available for hire, to an all-time high. Today, the foreign-born population stands at 51.6 million, the highest number ever recorded in American history. In other words, about three out of every 19 people currently living in the U.S. were born in a foreign country.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @JxhnBinder.