Immigrants made up almost 90 percent of the United States' labor market growth over the past five years, according to a report that is raising concerns about former President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.The National Foundation for American Policy said 3.6 million foreign workers entered the U.S. job market between 2019 and 2024, compared to 479,000 American-born workers.
if the migrant workforce was reduced—that American-born citizens were not likely to be able to fill the gap.'If you look over the past five years, without immigrants and their children, there would have been no labor force growth in the United States,' he said. 'And that means that without labor force growth, it's very difficult for a country to have economic growth, and without economic growth, living standards in a country stagnate and potentially even decline.