Trump Claims Job Market Booming for U.S.-Born Workers, Data Says Otherwise

President Donald Trump and White House officials have claimed that U.S.-born workers are benefiting from his administration’s immigration crackdown, suggesting millions of Americans gained jobs as immigrants left the workforce. Trump asserted in a recent prime-time address that “100 percent of all net job creation has gone to American-born citizens.”

However, economists and labor data contradict this claim. Experts note that unemployment has risen for both native-born and foreign-born workers and that U.S.-born workers are not seeing the mass job gains Trump has claimed. The labor market has generally weakened partly due to slowed immigration, challenging the administration’s narrative.

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers defended the policy, highlighting visa program enforcement, trade deals, border security, and deportations as steps benefiting American workers.

Economists urge caution, saying there’s no evidence that deported immigrants’ positions have been filled en masse by U.S.-born workers, and that the job market dynamics are more complex than the administration’s statements suggest.