This week, however grudgingly, media had to report that 119,000 new jobs were created in September – a significant upward difference from the 50,000 that were predicted.
But that did not tell the real story.
From “Tyler Durden’s” article at zerohedge.com:
One can debate how effective Trump has been in following up on his various campaign promises, but one place where he has been steadfast is reversing the Biden admin’s disastrous labor policies which favored foreign-born workers (mostly illegal aliens) over native-born workers.
To wit: in September, the number of native-born workers surged by 676K (after the August drop of 561K), while foreign-born workers dropped by 70K.
Now since the month-to-month changes are largely driven by seasonal factors, they don’t convey the full picture. What does, is a longer-term study such as the one below, which shows that since Trump entered the White House and his policies started impacting the economy, the number of foreign born workers has slumped from a record 33.7 million in March 2025 to 32.1 million, a drop of $1.6 million. This has been offset by a slow but consistent increase in native-born workers which had been unchanged for six years since 2019 until the start of 2025, at which point it started to rise again, and has increased from 131.2 million in March 2025 to a new record high of 133.2 million in September.
As a reminder, right before the covid crash the number of foreign-born workers was about 28.7 million, and increased by a whopping 4.5 million under Biden, while the number of native-born workers was actually down, a decline which serious “economists” blamed on demographics, a lack of willingness to work, and anything else.
It turns out, the number of native-borns could have very easily gone up if only someone remove the massive overhang of millions of illegals flooding through the border and taking away jobs (at a massive paycut) which perfectly capable native-born Americans would have taken.
How great is that news? Two million more native-born workers this year…many of them, no doubt, doing the jobs we have been told native-born workers would not do.
And – it would be hard to overstate the importance of this fact – because, unlike most of the workers they are replacing, native-born workers are legals, they are being paid legal wages with legal benefits.
It’s a conveniently forgotten reality that, when illegals are available to work for lower wages and no benefits, it also lowers the wage level for legals. This is a simple issue of supply and demand: why pay more if you can pay less?
Yeah, it’s true that they’re here illegally. But if no one is doing anything about it, that’s not a problem, right? So, if you can hire illegals without a problem, you can also get away with paying lower wages to legals as well: if they don’t like it, so what; you have an alternative.
Hey, y’know, maybe that’s why a lot of legals don’t want to do the work we’re talking about.
But with Trump & Co. ending the flow of illegals and deporting so many of the ones already here? That changes things, doesn’t it? Suddenly employers need legals. And that means they have to pay commensurately.
Bottom line? The resulting major uptick in native-born workers is great news. And if Trump & Co. continue their policies (closed borders, deportation of illegals), it is likely to stay that way.
Let’s hope that’s exactly what happens.
