January BLS Shows US Workers Lost Ground to Immigrant Employment
As always, the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report requires scrutiny to uncover the nuances that obscure the truth. On February 7, the BLS released the January 2025 economic report. Throughout former President Biden's four-year term, analysts cast a skeptical eye on what they claimed were inflated job creation totals. Last Labor Day, the BLS confirmed a significant error, and confessed to overstating job creation numbers from March 2023 to March 2024 by at least 818,000, the largest miscalculation in 15 years.
In January, total non-farm payroll employment rose by 143,000, with job gains concentrated in low-paying sectors including health care, retail trade, and social assistance. Conversely, employment declined in higher-paying industries such as mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.
Immigration experts have long speculated about how the Biden administration's border policies would manifest in monthly BLS data. During Biden's presidency, millions of illegal aliens crossed the border, most requiring employment to support themselves. The CBP-One mobile phone app—an illegal Biden maneuver—was officially announced in 2023 but actually had begun in 2021, providing a means for illegal aliens to fly to their preferred U.S. city. The administration unconstitutionally granted them parole, an immigration status that includes employment authorization. The impact of these newly admitted millions on the workforce was inevitable, though it was unlikely to be highlighted during Biden's tenure. Immigration, typically a taboo subject for Biden and his staff, was rarely discussed except in positive terms.
The Center for Immigration Studies' (CIS) Director of Research, Steven Camarota, analyzed the January 2025 Household Survey, which finally accounted for the substantial legal and illegal immigration surge since 2020. The significant population increase predictably influenced the labor market. The new BLS data revealed that since January 2020—the period just before COVID and the immigration surge—88 percent of all employment growth has gone to legal and illegal immigrants, often referred to as foreign-born. Immigrant-dominated employment occurred simultaneously with a near-record share, 22.1 percent, of working-age U.S.-born men detached from the labor force.
As CIS previously noted, earlier surveys' failure to fully account for the illegal immigration flow resulted in an underestimation of the total U.S. population. Good news for American workers appears on the horizon. President Trump's commitment to securing the border and his immediate cancellation of the CBP-One app have dampened prospective illegal aliens' enthusiasm for entering the U.S. unlawfully. In January, the U.S. manufacturing sector expanded for the first time after 26 months of contraction, as the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)—an indicator of prevailing economic trends in manufacturing and service sectors—registered 50.9 percent, 1.7 percentage points higher than the seasonally adjusted 49.2 percent reported in December.
Of the sub-indexes that directly factor into PMI, new orders, production, employment, and supplier deliveries were in expansion territory compared to only two subindexes showing improvement in December, the last full month of the Biden administration. PMI has surged since President Trump's November election, as manufacturers and buyers anticipate more business-friendly policies.
The remainder of the first calendar quarter will reveal whether Trump's presidency truly represents an America-first agenda or if his current popularity is merely a temporary blip on the four-year political radar.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Hey Joe, Where you going with that .. (Hendrix)
This is my first article of yours, and I'll be going back in time to read more.
This morning I was abusing ChatGPT on immigration and it vomiting-up all the pro-native genocide mass immigration BS, how diversity from a culture much worse than ours used to be before S-it-hole cultures flooded in, that our culture and economics improved - never mind we already have too many of whichever Diversity It's Satanic lying trainers they hope to ship in to drive wages even lower to starve our families for their profits.
I started out asking if .. well here it is;
In Minersville School District v. Gobitis is stated "But all these specific activities of government presuppose the existence of an organized political society. The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment. Such a sentiment is fostered by all those agencies of the mind and spirit which may serve to gather up the traditions of a people, transmit them from generation to generation, and thereby create that continuity of a treasured common life which constitutes a civilization." and so can this be an argument against mass immigration of peoples that do not value or nation's cohesive sentiments and values?
And so, the pro-mass-Immigration propaganda started .. if I did not actively correct and argue It would soon have me punching my own gonads for being a White Christain man that haven't dropped dead yet.
Oh, so I was wondering how much our wages would increase if no women worked (1/2 of the laborers we have now) and the twisted slimy Woke-vomit AI replayed "I can't answer that." and at first I thought it lacked some information, but after a few question I said something like it wouldn't answer racist, .., questions, so I asked It if I had asked if no men allowed to work would it answer? Well, it "can't answer that" because it's AI tool got all excited too much with all us men dying on our feces covered streets .. or perhaps I am being unJust to the Sexist, Racist, anti-Christian programmed Golem-AIDemon.
If you fire up ChatGPT you too can abuse it like I do. No kittens to kick, so abuse the AI and get yourself on some FBI and local Police list.
God Bless., Steve
Why are so many Americans remaining silent about a government that Lincoln said was designed to be "for the people" while it continues to screw over American workers?