The post-COVID job “recovery” touted by Joe Biden has been driven almost entirely by the flow of foreign workers into the American labor force, according to a new study from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). The immigration policy group found that the figure of 2.7 million ‘additional’ individuals joining the workforce in the fourth quarter of 2023 came about because of an increase of 2.9 million legal or illegal immigrant jobs and a decline of 183,000 native-born American jobs.
Since the economic recovery began in late 2020, the number of U.S.-born workers entering the labor market has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. Despite the sluggish job recovery among native workers, the U.S. experienced a hot job market — driven by a flood of cheap, foreign labor, the CIS study shows. Immigrant labor recovery has far outpaced native-born recovery when comparing fourth-quarter numbers at the end of each year […]
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