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The cheap labor market is drying up with decent wages and benefits now being offered to attract American born workers.Forbes says that's BS.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on social media, “The universe is healing” after an ally claimed the jobs report showed U.S.-born worker employment increased and foreign-born employment fell in June. The problem with what Miller retweeted: Month-to-month changes in the Current Population Survey often jump around because the standard errors are high. “Any single-month change may be misleading,” notes Regets. Economists would also reject the idea that U.S.-born or foreign-born worker gains need to come at either group’s expense.
In his 2024 Republican National Convention speech, Donald Trump asserted that more than 100% of new jobs during the Biden presidency were “taken by illegal aliens.” The data showed that 59% of employment growth under Biden was for U.S.-born workers. As for employment growth for foreign-born workers during the Biden administration, government statistics do not measure how many lacked legal status. From January 2021 to June 2024, employment grew by 13.4 million—7.9 million for U.S.-born workers and 5.5 million for foreign-born workers.
Over the past year, the economic data do not support the assertion that removing foreign-born workers from the labor force increased U.S.-born labor force participation. The labor force participation rate for the U.S. born declined from 62.1% to 61.8% between June 2024 and June 2025. So U.S. born workers in the labor force actually declined over the past year.
In short, the Trump administration’s actions have harmed employers desperate for workers. In 2024, 99,000 Haitians were working in healthcare occupations in the United States, including 28,000 non-citizens. Wait'll Mad King Donald starts deporting Haitians and watch as healthcare organizations scramble for ways to replace workers who lost work authorization in an already tight market and on very short notice.
And no, American workers will not be stepping into those jobs since it takes two to three years of training to qualify for many healthcare jobs.
Fun times ahead.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/0... 