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Bloomberg
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
The Boom in American-Born Employees Isn't Real
Something remarkable has been going on lately with the population estimates maintained by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. They show a decline of 1.9 million in the foreign-born working-age population in the US (defined here as ages 16 through 64) since March and an increase of 3.3 million in the native-born working-age population since December. The foreign-born working-age population may well be shrinking. The flow of illegal immigration across the Mexican border slowed sharply last year and has ground almost to a halt this year, and since January the Trump administration has been narrowing legal immigration channels, canceling temporary legal immigration programs and increasing the pace of deportations for those here illegally. It's extremely unlikely that 1.9 million people ages 16 through 64 have left the country since March, but the direction at least could be correct.
Washington Post
07-08-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Trump's plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape
The Trump administration's plan to install large-scale detention facilities on U.S. military bases is taking shape, with Fort Bliss preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Wednesday. The sprawling Army post in El Paso is expected to hold 5,000 people in tentlike facilities at full capacity, which would turn it into the largest detention facility in the United States for civil detainees. Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also approved the temporary use of Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey to house several thousand migrants before they are deported.
New York Times
02-07-2025
- Business
- New York Times
How Immigration Could Muddy the Jobs Numbers
Officials at the Federal Reserve, under pressure from President Trump to restart interest rate cuts after an extended pause, say they are prepared to lower borrowing costs if the labor market weakens. But Mr. Trump's own immigration policies risk making it much harder for those policymakers to know whether that is happening, putting a divided central bank in an even more fraught position as it debates when and by what magnitude to lower borrowing costs. The Trump administration in recent months has moved to revoke the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants and has conducted high-profile immigration raids at work sites in Los Angeles and other cities. It has stepped up security at the U.S.-Mexican border and has publicly threatened to deport as many as a million workers a year. The full effect of those policies is not yet clear. But virtually all analysts expect the immigrant population to grow much more slowly this year, and perhaps even to fall. That could leave employers who rely on immigrant labor scrambling to fill positions, potentially pushing up wages and causing shortages of certain goods or services. A shrinking immigrant labor force could pose a big problem for the Fed, making it harder to tell whether a slowdown in job growth is the result of falling demand for workers, fewer available employees or both. The shrinking pool of workers could also present another source of inflationary pressures beyond tariffs that officials would have to navigate. 'The Fed is in a challenging position,' said Betsey Stevenson, a former chief economist at the Labor Department who is now a professor at the University of Michigan. 'They need to be really careful that what they're seeing is actually weak labor demand and not contracting labor supply caused by Trump's policies, and that's tricky.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
