Despite Republican claims, hard data shows migrants are not taking the jobs from any American citizens.
Republicans are responsible for the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen with lies that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing jobs.
But government data shows immigrant labor contributes to economic growth and provides promotional opportunities for native-born workers. And a mass deportation event is costing U.S. taxpayers up to a trillion dollars and caused the cost of living, including food and housing, to skyrocket
This rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned as racist and insulting.
A recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey data shows that native-born Black workers are most predominantly employed in management and financial operations, sales and office support roles, while native-born Latino workers are most often employed in management, office support, sales and service occupations.
International migrants primarily from Latin America accounted for more than two-thirds of the population growth in the United States, and so far this decade they have made up almost three-quarters of U.S. growth.
After hitting a record high in December 2023, the number of migrants crossing the border has plummeted.
It is true that international migrants have become a primary driver of population growth this decade, increasing their share of the overall population as fewer children are being born in the U.S. compared with years past. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey.
Economists who study immigrant labor's impact on the economy say that people who are in the U.S. illegally are not taking native citizens' jobs, because the roles that these immigrant workers take on are most often positions that native workers are unwilling to fill, such as agriculture and food processing jobs.
In addition, there are not a fixed number of jobs in the U.S., immigrants tend to contribute to the survival of existing firms (opening up new opportunities for native workers) and there are currently more jobs available than there are workers available to take them. U.S. natives have low interest in working in labor-intensive agriculture and food production roles.