Former president Donald Trump wrote in an August 20 post on Truth Social that “most new jobs under Biden went to illegal immigrants.” Predictably, “fact checkers” attacked his assertion.
It is the case that a significant share of job growth went to the native-born in 2021 as the economy recovered from Covid.
The foreign-born, often colloquially called “immigrants,” are all those who were not American citizens at birth — including naturalized citizens, permanent residents (green-card holders), temporary visitors (mostly guest workers and foreign students), and illegal immigrants.
The Census Bureau, which collects the CPS, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which analyzes the data each month, are both clear that illegal immigrants are included in the data.
It is possible that some of the growth in 2021 is overstated owing to problems with collecting the survey during the pandemic.
The government’s Current Population Survey (CPS) asks members of the general public each month whether they are working, looking for work (unemployed), or neither working nor looking for work.
In a series of reports, we have chronicled the dramatic growth of the foreign-born in the monthly CPS since President Biden took office.
https://cis.org/Camarota/Oped-Trump-Likely-Right-about-Illegal-Immigrants-Accounting-Job-Growth
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